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CVE-2025-53581:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in artiosmedia RSS Feed Pro plugin affecting versions through 1.1.8. The vulnerability was discovered by Nabil Irawan and was publicly disclosed on August 14, 2025. This security issue has been assigned CVE-2025-53581 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.9 (Medium) (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). It requires high privileges (Editor+) and user interaction for exploitation. The CVSS vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L, indicating network attack vector, low attack complexity, high privileges required, and user interaction needed (AttackerKB).
Impact
If exploited, this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor 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).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in RSS Feed Pro version 1.1.9. Users are advised to update to version 1.1.9 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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