CVE-2025-23671
Published: 31 January 2025
Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in sav WP OpenSearch wp-opensearch allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP OpenSearch: from n/a through <= 1.0.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23671 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WP OpenSearch (wp-opensearch) plugin for WordPress. The issue affects the plugin from unspecified initial versions through 1.0 inclusive, as published on 2025-01-31.
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, user interaction, and changed scope with low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Remote attackers can exploit it by injecting malicious scripts that are stored and executed in the browsers of other users viewing affected pages.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-opensearch/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-opensearch-plugin-1-0-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
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