CVE-2025-58987
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The vulnerability (CVE-2025-58987) is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the WordPress Football Pool plugin versions through 2.12.6. The vulnerability was discovered by Muhammad Yudha - DJ and publicly disclosed on September 9, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

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 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. The vulnerability requires low privileges and user interaction to be exploited (Patchstack).

Impact

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 version 2.13.0 of the Football Pool plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.13.0 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

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