What is CVE-2025-5983?

CVE-2025-5983 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Meta Tag Manager, classified under CWE-601 URL REDIRECTION TO UNTRUSTED SITE ('OPEN REDIRECT'). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-10-22.

How severe is CVE-2025-5983?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Meta Tag Manager

CVE-2025-5983

The Meta Tag Manager WordPress plugin before 3.3 does not restrict which roles can create http-equiv refresh meta tags.

Published 2025-10-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (16.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 16th percentile — 16.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Meta Tag Manager — versions 0

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/4a2d4dcf-bb34-4eec-b5de-31c6a4d823cf/ (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-5983?: CVE-2025-5983 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Meta Tag Manager, classified under CWE-601 URL REDIRECTION TO UNTRUSTED SITE ('OPEN REDIRECT'). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-10-22.
How severe is CVE-2025-5983?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.