CVE-2025-62076: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the Simple Payment WordPress plugin, identified as CVE-2025-62076. The vulnerability affects versions up to and including 2.4.6 of the Simple Payment plugin developed by Ido Kobelkowsky. The issue was discovered on October 29, 2025, and involves improper neutralization of input during web page generation (Rapid7, Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue, categorized under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). It has received a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.1 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity and no privileges required (NVD).

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This could enable malicious actors to inject scripts for redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads that execute when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).

Users are advised to update to version 2.4.7 or later of the Simple Payment plugin to resolve the vulnerability. Patchstack has issued a mitigation rule to block any attacks until users can update to a fixed version (Patchstack).