XSS in Taxopress

CVE-2025-0627

The WordPress Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager WordPress plugin before 3.30.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its Widgets settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (15.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

  • Taxopress
  • Unknown Wordpress Tag, Category, And Taxonomy Manager — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

  • contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-0627?
CVE-2025-0627 is a low-severity vulnerability in Taxopress, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2025-04-28.
How severe is CVE-2025-0627?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.