What is CVE-2025-8080?

CVE-2025-8080 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Alobaidi Captcha, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2025-08-15.

How severe is CVE-2025-8080?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.

XSS in Alobaidi Captcha

CVE-2025-8080

The Alobaidi Captcha plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (16.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Alobaidi Captcha — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-8080?: CVE-2025-8080 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Alobaidi Captcha, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2025-08-15.
How severe is CVE-2025-8080?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.