CVE-2025-60177: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress plugin Recaptcha – wp, affecting versions up to 0.2.6. The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Nabil Irawan and was disclosed on September 26, 2025. This security issue has been assigned CVE-2025-60177 and requires administrator-level privileges to exploit (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has received a CVSS v3.1 score of 5.9 (Medium). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring high privileges (PR:H) and user interaction (UI:R). The scope is changed (S:C) with low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L) (Patchstack).

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with administrator privileges 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).

As there is no official fix available for this vulnerability, the recommended mitigation is to remove and replace the software with an alternative solution. Deactivating the software alone does not remove the security threat unless a virtual patch (vPatch) is deployed (Patchstack).