This could allow a malicious actor to inject their own content into pages and posts of your website. This could also be abused to inject phishing pages into your website.
CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.
This security issue has a low severity impact and is unlikely to be exploited.
Update to version 3.9.1 or later to remove the vulnerability.
Early warning sent out to Patchstack customers
28 Jul, 2025
Published by Patchstack
28 Jul, 2025