CVE-2025-3748

The Taxonomy Chain Menu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's pn_chain_menu shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS v3 6.4 MEDIUM

6.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/taxonomy-chain-menu/trunk/index.php#L190	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3284354/	Patch
https://wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-chain-menu/#developers	Product
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/25afc28c-2814-4b49-add5-1d0ce5ff3a07?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:pluginus:taxonomy_chain_menu:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

06 May 2025, 15:19

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-05-02 04:15

Updated : 2025-05-06 15:19

NVD link : CVE-2025-3748

Mitre link : CVE-2025-3748

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-3748

JSON object : View

Products Affected

pluginus

taxonomy_chain_menu

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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