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CVE-2025-60176: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was identified in the WP Tesseract WordPress plugin, tracked as CVE-2025-60176. The vulnerability was discovered by Nabil Irawan from Heroes Cyber and was publicly disclosed on September 26, 2025. This security issue affects WP Tesseract versions through 1.0.2 (Wordfence Intel, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79). According to the CVSS 3.1 scoring system, it received a base score of 5.9 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L, indicating that it requires high privileges and user interaction to exploit (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows for Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, which could potentially lead to unauthorized data access and manipulation of web content. The CVSS scoring indicates low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability when successfully exploited (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of October 2025, the vulnerability remains unpatched according to available sources (Wordfence Blog).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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