CVE 5.9 MEDIUM

WordPress core <= 6.8.2 - (Author+) Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability_CVE-2025-58674

5.9 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Automattic WordPress allows Stored XSS.

WordPress core security team is aware of the issue and working on a fix. This is low severity vulnerability that requires an attacker to have Author or higher user privileges to execute the attack vector.
This issue affects WordPress: from n/a through 6.8.2.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-58674
Source Patchstack
Published Sep 23, 2025 at 18:47
Modified Sep 23, 2025 at 19:17

Affected Product

Vendor Automattic
Product WordPress
Version n/a
Affected Versions Automattic WordPress n/a

CWE Classification

References

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