Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in 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 6.8 through 6.8.2, from 6.7 through 6.7.3, from 6.6 through 6.6.3, from 6.5 through 6.5.6, from 6.4 through 6.4.6, from 6.3 through 6.3.6, from 6.2 through 6.2.7, from 6.1 through 6.1.8, from 6.0 through 6.0.10, from 5.9 through 5.9.11, from 5.8 through 5.8.11, from 5.7 through 5.7.13, from 5.6 through 5.6.15, from 5.5 through 5.5.16, from 5.4 through 5.4.17, from 5.3 through 5.3.19, from 5.2 through 5.2.22, from 5.1 through 5.1.20, from 5.0 through 5.0.23, from 4.9 through 4.9.27, from 4.8 through 4.8.26, from 4.7 through 4.7.30.
Problem types
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Product status
6.8 (custom)
6.7 (custom)
6.6 (custom)
6.5 (custom)
6.4 (custom)
6.3 (custom)
6.2 (custom)
6.1 (custom)
6.0 (custom)
5.9 (custom)
5.8 (custom)
5.7 (custom)
5.6 (custom)
5.5 (custom)
5.4 (custom)
5.3 (custom)
5.2 (custom)
5.1 (custom)
5.0 (custom)
4.9 (custom)
4.8 (custom)
4.7 (custom)
Credits
savphill (Patchstack Bug Bounty Program)
John Blackbourn (WordPress core security team lead)
References
patchstack.com/...site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
wordpress.org/news/2025/09/wordpress-6-8-3-release/
