What is CVE-2025-9487?

CVE-2025-9487 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Admin And Site Enhancements (Ase), classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2025-09-22.

How severe is CVE-2025-9487?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-9487 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Admin And Site Enhancements (Ase)

CVE-2025-9487

The Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) WordPress plugin before 7.9.8 does not sanitise SVG files when uploaded via xmlrpc.php when such uploads are enabled, which could allow users to upload a malicious SVG containing XSS payloads

Published 2025-09-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (12.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-05.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 13th percentile — 12.9% 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: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Admin And Site Enhancements (Ase) — versions 0

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/b957b7c4-7a7c-497e-b8e4-499c821fb1b0/ (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-9487?: CVE-2025-9487 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Admin And Site Enhancements (Ase), classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2025-09-22.
How severe is CVE-2025-9487?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-9487 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.