CVE-2025-9878

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.46.4
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 6.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-25. A secondary CVSS source baseline 6.4; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.4EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 6.4Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

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

The CVE record's CNA (Wordfence) lists buildwps PPWP – Password Protect Pages versions up to and including 1.9.21 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

The PPWP – Password Protect WordPress | #1 Most-Reviewed Password Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ppwp' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.21 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
EG Score
6.4MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
29
EG Risk 29/100

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 (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity64% × 45%
The EG Score, 6.4 of 10.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
7th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 25, 2026

Last Modified

October 7, 2026

References (5)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-9878(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 15× in last 7d / 71× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 131 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 31 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-13 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-10 12:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  11. 2026-10-09 20:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  13. 2026-10-08 09:56 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-08 09:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  15. 2026-10-07 23:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  16. 2026-10-07 09:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  17. 2026-10-07 03:48 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-07 03:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  19. 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  20. 2026-10-06 02:42 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-06 02:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  22. 2026-10-05 17:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  24. 2026-10-04 20:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  25. 2026-10-03 16:28 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-03 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  2. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  3. 2026-10-02 13:21 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-02 13:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  5. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  6. 2026-10-01 12:30 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-01 12:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  8. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  9. 2026-09-30 11:43 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-30 11:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  11. 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  12. 2026-09-29 10:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  13. 2026-09-28 23:36 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-09-28 23:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  15. 2026-09-28 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  16. 2026-09-27 22:54 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-27 22:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  19. 2026-09-26 22:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  20. 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  22. 2026-09-25 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  24. 2026-09-24 13:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  25. 2026-09-23 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
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  27. 2026-09-23 12:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  29. 2026-09-22 12:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  31. 2026-09-21 11:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  34. 2026-09-20 10:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  36. 2026-09-19 10:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  39. 2026-09-18 09:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  41. 2026-09-17 08:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  43. 2026-09-16 07:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  46. 2026-09-15 06:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  48. 2026-09-14 06:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  51. 2026-09-13 05:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  54. 2026-09-12 04:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  58. 2026-09-11 04:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
  59. 2026-09-10 09:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
  60. 2026-09-10 03:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  62. 2026-09-09 02:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  65. 2026-09-08 01:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  68. 2026-09-07 01:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  71. 2026-09-06 00:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  73. 2026-09-04 23:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4
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  75. 2026-09-03 23:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gr4q-7mpw-mwqc · GitHub CVSS 6.4

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-9878?
CVE-2025-9878 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 25, 2026. The PPWP – Password Protect WordPress | #1 Most-Reviewed Password Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ppwp' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.21 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-9878 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-9878 was published on August 25, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 7, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2025-9878 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-9878 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (7th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-9878?
CVE-2025-9878 has a CVSS base score of 6.4 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-9878?
No fix for CVE-2025-9878 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The CVE record's CNA (Wordfence) lists buildwps PPWP – Password Protect Pages versions up to and including 1.9.21 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-9878 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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