XSS in Business Name Generator

CVE-2025-15698

The Business Name Generator WordPress plugin through 1.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its 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: 0.002 (15.4th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 15th percentile — 15.4% 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-2025-15698: held from 0.001 to 0.002.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.002 · change: +0.001

Affected products

  • Business Name Generator

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-15698?
CVE-2025-15698 is a low-severity vulnerability in Business Name Generator, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2026-09-19.
How severe is CVE-2025-15698?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.