CVE-2025-8046 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Injection Guard WordPress plugin before 1.2.8 does not escape the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] parameter before outputting it back in an attribute, which could lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in old web browsers

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Wordpress	Wordpress

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/14a53525-8c08-472d-bae4-b3f14368b802/

History

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Wordpress Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products		Wordpress Wordpress wordpress

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The Injection Guard WordPress plugin before 1.2.8 does not escape the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] parameter before outputting it back in an attribute, which could lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in old web browsers
Title		Injection Guard < 1.2.8 - Reflected XSS via $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/14a53525-8c08-472d-bae4-b3f14368b802/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2025-08-14T06:00:06.039Z

Updated: 2025-08-14T14:49:50.570Z

Reserved: 2025-07-22T12:17:51.484Z

Link: CVE-2025-8046

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-14T13:38:46.288Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-14T06:15:28.797

Modified: 2025-08-14T15:15:42.650

Link: CVE-2025-8046

Redhat

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