CVE-2025-22735

CVE-2025-22735 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WordPress Tag Cloud Plugin – Tag Groups (tag-groups) developed by Steve Burge. The issue affects the plugin from unspecified initial versions through 2.0.4.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L), indicating it is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, no privileges required, but user interaction needed, and with changed scope leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Any unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit it by tricking a user into interacting with a maliciously crafted request, such as a URL containing injected scripts reflected in the page.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/tag-groups/vulnerability/wordpress-tag-cloud-plugin-tag-groups-plugin-2-0-4-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides further details on the vulnerability and mitigation recommendations.