#VU108526 Stored cross-site scripting in Taxonomy Chain Menu - CVE-2025-3748
Published: May 5, 2025
Taxonomy Chain Menu
realmag777
Description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the pn_chain_menu shortcode. A remote user can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
External links
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/taxonomy-chain-menu/trunk/index.php#L190
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3284354/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-chain-menu/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/25afc28c-2814-4b49-add5-1d0ce5ff3a07?source=cve