CVE-2025-49443: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2025-49443 is a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability discovered in the WordPress plugin Bacon Ipsum, affecting versions through 2.4. The vulnerability was discovered by Chu The Anh (Blue Rock) on May 4, 2025, and was publicly disclosed on June 5, 2025. This security issue allows for Stored XSS attacks in the Chris McCoy Bacon Ipsum plugin (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79) issue. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 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. The vulnerability requires Contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit (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 requires authenticated access with at least Contributor-level privileges. It has been assessed as having a low priority for exploitation, though the software is considered abandoned, which increases the risk as no official fixes are expected (Patchstack).

As there is no official fix available and the software is considered abandoned (last updated over a year ago), the recommended mitigation is to remove and replace the Bacon Ipsum plugin with an alternative solution. Note that merely deactivating the plugin does not remove the security threat (Patchstack).