🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2025-9277

MEDIUM 6.4

SiteSEO – SEO Simplified <= 1.2.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Broken Regex Expression

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The SiteSEO – SEO Simplified plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the broken preg_replace expression in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor softaculous
Product siteseo – seo simplified
Published Aug 26, 2025
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

softaculous / SiteSEO – SEO Simplified
0 ≤ 1.2.7

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b8c7cca2-94d2-4a86-bc69-d7b2b0f068ba?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteseo/tags/1.2.6/main/advanced.php#L80

Credits

Matthew Rollings