Bug 2397671 (CVE-2025-58674)

Summary: CVE-2025-58674 wordpress: WordPress Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
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Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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A cross site scripting flaw has been discovered in WordPress. This flaw 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.
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Bug Depends On: 2397729, 2397731, 2397733, 2397735    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-23 19:01:36 UTC
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Automattic WordPress allows Stored XSS.

WordPress core security team is aware of the issue and working on a fix. This is low severity vulnerability that requires an attacker to have Author or higher user privileges to execute the attack vector. 
This issue affects WordPress: from n/a through 6.8.2.