What is CVE-2025-15677?

CVE-2025-15677 is a low-severity vulnerability in Geodirectory, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2026-08-05.

How severe is CVE-2025-15677?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.

XSS in Geodirectory

CVE-2025-15677

The GeoDirectory WordPress plugin before 2.8.110 does not sanitise and escape a place-category setting before outputting it back in an admin page, allowing high-privilege users such as editors and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in a multisite setup).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (7.1th 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

Unknown Geodirectory — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

contact@wpscan.com (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-15677?: CVE-2025-15677 is a low-severity vulnerability in Geodirectory, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2026-08-05.
How severe is CVE-2025-15677?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.