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CVE-2025-49074: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-49074) was discovered in ThemesGrove's WidgetKit WordPress plugin affecting versions up to and including 2.5.4. The vulnerability was discovered by João Pedro S Alcântara (Kinorth) and was disclosed on May 30, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') issue due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the WidgetKit plugin. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium), with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L (Wiz).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page, potentially enabling attackers to inject redirects, advertisements, and other malicious HTML payloads that affect website visitors (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.5.5 of the WidgetKit plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.5.5 or later to remove the vulnerability (Wiz).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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