This vulnerability is moderately dangerous and expected to become exploited.
This could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into your website which will be executed when guests visit your site.
CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.
We advise to mitigate or resolve the vulnerability immediately.
Update to version 3.9.0 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can turn on auto-update for vulnerable plugins only.
19 Aug, 2025