CVE-2025-22501: WordPress Improve My City plugin <= 1.6 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

7.1 CVSS

Description

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in Improve My City Improve My City allows Reflected XSS. This issue affects Improve My City: from n/a through 1.6.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-22501

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Problem Types

CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)

Affected Products

Vendor: Improve My City

Product: Improve My City

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 9.44% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-20 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22501
https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/improve-my-city/vulnerability/wordpress-improve-my-city-plugin-1-6-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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