CVE-2025-22755
Published: 15 January 2025
Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in bavington WP Headmaster wp-headmaster allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WP Headmaster: from n/a through <= 0.3.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-22755 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WP Headmaster WordPress plugin (wp-headmaster) by bavington. The issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 0.3 inclusive.
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 network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, but user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser on affected sites, achieving low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope.
The Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-headmaster/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-headmaster-plugin-0-3-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) documents the Reflected XSS vulnerability in WP Headmaster plugin version 0.3.
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