CVE-2025-25169

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

03/03/2025

Last modified:

15/04/2026

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (&#39;Cross-site Scripting&#39;) vulnerability in Rachel Cherry Authors Autocomplete Meta Box authors-autocomplete-meta-box allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Authors Autocomplete Meta Box: from n/a through

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

7.10

Severity 3.x

HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/authors-autocomplete-meta-box/vulnerability/wordpress-authors-autocomplete-meta-box-plugin-1-2-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve