Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-0627

LowPublic PoC

Published: 28 April 2025

Published
28 April 2025
Modified
30 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 3.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.2th percentile
Risk Priority 7 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-0627 is a low-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Taxopress Taxopress. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 32.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The WordPress Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager WordPress plugin before 3.30.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its Widgets settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html…

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capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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T1189 Drive-by Compromise Initial Access
Adversaries may gain access to a system through a user visiting a website over the normal course of browsing.
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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
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Why these techniques?

Authenticated stored XSS in WordPress plugin enables admins to inject arbitrary JavaScript executed in site visitors' browsers, bypassing unfiltered_html restrictions to facilitate JavaScript execution (T1059.007), drive-by compromise (T1189), exploitation of public-facing application (T1190), and stealing web session cookies (T1539).

Affected Assets

taxopress
taxopress
≤ 3.30.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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