CVE-2025-23428

CVE-2025-23428 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79. It affects the QMean – WordPress Did You Mean plugin by Arash Safari, impacting all versions from n/a through 2.0 inclusive.

The vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers requiring no privileges (PR:N), over the network (AV:N), with low attack complexity (AC:L), though it demands user interaction (UI:R) such as clicking a malicious link. Successful exploitation changes scope (S:C), enabling low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), for a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1. Attackers can inject and execute arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser viewing the reflected page.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/qmean/vulnerability/wordpress-qmean-plugin-2-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the Reflected XSS issue in QMean plugin version 2.0 and provides mitigation guidance for affected WordPress installations.