CVE-2025-23643
Published: 22 January 2025
Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in a.ankit ReadMe Creator readme-creator allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects ReadMe Creator: from n/a through <= 1.0.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23643 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the ReadMe Creator WordPress plugin by a.ankit. The issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.0 inclusive, as published on 2025-01-22.
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 exploitation is possible over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, but user interaction such as visiting a malicious link. Remote attackers can leverage reflected XSS to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in users' browsers, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope.
Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/readme-creator/vulnerability/wordpress-readme-creator-plugin-1-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on the vulnerability in the WordPress ReadMe Creator plugin version 1.0.
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