Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-5234

CVE-2025-5234:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Gutenverse News plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in versions up to and including 1.0.4, identified as CVE-2025-5234. The vulnerability was discovered on June 18, 2025 and publicly disclosed on June 19, 2025. The issue exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'elementId' parameter (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper neutralization of input during web page generation (CWE-79) in the 'elementId' parameter. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability affects the plugin's handling of the elementId parameter in the class-grab.php file (WordPress Plugin).

Impact

When exploited, this 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 an affected page, potentially leading to theft of sensitive information or manipulation of page content (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.0.0 of the Gutenverse News plugin. The update includes fixes for the vulnerability in the elementId parameter and other security improvements. Users are strongly advised to update to version 2.0.0 or later (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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