CVE-2025-15677

LOWPre-NVD 3.53.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 3.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-08-05. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 3.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
3.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 3.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

The GeoDirectory WordPress plugin before 2.8.110 does not sanitise and escape a place-category setting before outputting it back in an admin page, allowing high-privilege users such as editors and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in a multisite setup).

CVSS v3
3.5
EG Score
3.5(high)
EG Risk
16(Track)
EG Risk 16/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity35% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
7%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 5, 2026

Last Modified

August 5, 2026

References (1)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-15677(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 33× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-08-20 22:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-20 06:03 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-08-20 06:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-19 17:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-18 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-08-17 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-08-17 07:55 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-17 07:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-16 14:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-08-16 02:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-08-16 02:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-08-15 01:29 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-08-14 09:48 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-14 09:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-08-13 21:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-08-12 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-08-11 13:41 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-11 11:41 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-08-11 11:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-08-10 23:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-08-09 13:45 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-08-08 13:35 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-08-08 13:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-08-07 16:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-08-06 13:45 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-08-05 19:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-05 15:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-05 14:36 UTCEG score recompute▲ 3.50
  4. 2026-08-05 14:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-08-05 14:35 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 3.5 · severity → LOW
  6. 2026-08-05 07:19 UTCNVD update
  7. 2026-08-05 06:20 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-05 06:20 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-15677?
CVE-2025-15677 is a low vulnerability published on August 5, 2026. The GeoDirectory WordPress plugin before 2.8.110 does not sanitise and escape a place-category setting before outputting it back in an admin page, allowing high-privilege users such as editors and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is…
When was CVE-2025-15677 disclosed?
CVE-2025-15677 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 5, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2025-15677 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-15677 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 92.9% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-15677?
CVE-2025-15677 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 3.5 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-15677?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2025-15677, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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