CVE-2025-8721: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Workable Api plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-8721) discovered in versions up to and including 1.0.4. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed on September 10, 2025, and was identified by researcher Muhammad Yudha - DJ. The plugin has been temporarily closed from the WordPress plugin directory pending a full security review (NVD, Wordfence Intel).

The vulnerability exists in the plugin's workable_jobs shortcode functionality due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD).

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page, potentially leading to theft of sensitive information or manipulation of page content (NVD).

The WordPress plugin directory has temporarily closed the plugin as of September 10, 2025, pending a full security review. Users are advised to disable and remove the plugin until a patched version becomes available (WordPress Plugin).