What is CVE-2025-12379?

CVE-2025-12379 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Averta Shortcodes And Extra Features For Phlox Theme, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2026-01-10.

How severe is CVE-2025-12379?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

XSS in Averta Shortcodes And Extra Features For Phlox Theme

CVE-2025-12379

The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a combination of the 'tag' and ‘title_tag’ parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.17.13 due to insufficient…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (8.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Averta Shortcodes And Extra Features For Phlox Theme — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-12379?: CVE-2025-12379 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Averta Shortcodes And Extra Features For Phlox Theme, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2026-01-10.
How severe is CVE-2025-12379?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.