CVE-2025-30547
Published: 01 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-30547 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 28.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-30547 is a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability arising from improper neutralization of input during web page generation. It affects the WP Cards WordPress plugin by David Tufts in all versions through 1.5.1 and is tracked under CWE-79 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.1.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can supply a crafted URL that is reflected back to a victim user; successful exploitation executes attacker-controlled script in the victim's browser within the context of the affected site, resulting in limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The issue is catalogued in the Patchstack advisory database for the WordPress WP Cards plugin. The EPSS score remains low, with a current value of 0.0067 and a peak of 0.0111.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-9120
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in David Tufts WP Cards wp-cards allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WP Cards: from n/a through <= 1.5.1.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.