CVE-2025-2804

Summary

CVE-2025-2804 is a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the tagDiv Composer plugin used in the Newspaper theme for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to and including 5.3, stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the 'account_id' and 'account_username' parameters. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this flaw by injecting arbitrary web scripts, which can execute if a user is tricked into taking a specific action, such as clicking on a malicious link. This vulnerability poses a significant security risk and requires immediate attention and patching by WordPress site administrators using the Newspaper theme.

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