CVE-2025-22264
Published: 23 January 2025
Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Patel WP Query Creator wp-query-creator allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WP Query Creator: from n/a through <= 1.0.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-22264 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WP Query Creator plugin (wp-query-creator) for WordPress. Developed by Patel, the issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through 1.0 inclusive. Published on 2025-01-23, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.
The vulnerability enables exploitation over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), and results in a changed scope (S:C) with low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L). Remote attackers can craft malicious inputs that reflect executable JavaScript when processed by the plugin during web page generation, typically via a malicious link or payload delivered through social engineering.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-query-creator/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-query-creator-plugin-1-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides additional details on the vulnerability.
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