Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-23984

CVE-2025-23984:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WordPress plugin Dynamic URL SEO contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in versions up to and including 1.0. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher thiennv and was assigned CVE-2025-23984 on February 3, 2025 (Patchstack, WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability is caused by insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the Dynamic URL SEO plugin. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when users perform certain actions like clicking on a link. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 7.1 (High) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L and is classified as CWE-79 (Patchstack).

Impact

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows attackers to inject malicious scripts that could lead to various attacks including redirects, advertisements, and other arbitrary HTML payloads that execute when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.2 of the Dynamic URL SEO plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to resolve the security issue (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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