CVE-2025-49310: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The CVE-2025-49310 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability discovered in the Frontend Dashboard WordPress plugin, affecting versions up to 2.2.8. The vulnerability was reported on May 28, 2025, and publicly disclosed on June 5, 2025. This security issue specifically involves improper neutralization of input during web page generation, allowing for stored XSS attacks (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium severity). The attack vector is characterized as CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L, indicating that it requires network access, low attack complexity, low privileges, and user interaction (NVD).

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when guests visit the affected site (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.2.9 of the Frontend Dashboard plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.2.9 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users have the additional option to enable auto-updates for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).