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CVE-2025-59589:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in PenciDesign's Soledad WordPress theme, identified as CVE-2025-59589. The vulnerability was reported on September 13, 2025, by João Pedro S Alcântara (Kinorth) and publicly disclosed on September 22, 2025. This DOM-Based XSS vulnerability affects Soledad versions through 8.6.8 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). It received a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium severity) 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 to exploit (Patchstack).
Impact
If exploited, this 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).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in Soledad version 8.6.9. Users are advised to update to version 8.6.9 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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