What is CVE-2025-8686?

CVE-2025-8686 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wen-Solutions Wp Easy Faqs, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-09-11.

How severe is CVE-2025-8686?

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

XSS in Wen-Solutions Wp Easy Faqs

CVE-2025-8686

The WP Easy FAQs plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's WP_EASY_FAQ shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (20.3th 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

Wen-solutions Wp Easy Faqs — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-8686?: CVE-2025-8686 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wen-Solutions Wp Easy Faqs, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-09-11.
How severe is CVE-2025-8686?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.