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.
Patchstack has issued a mitigation rule to block any attacks until an official fix becomes available, can be tested and be safely applied.
Early warning sent out to Patchstack customers
31 Jan, 2025
Published by Patchstack
31 Jan, 2025