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)

Published · last modified .

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (17.2th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 17th percentile — 17.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-0627: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

  • Taxopress
  • WordPress Tag, Category, And Taxonomy Manager — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

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.