CVE-2025-49443: WordPress Bacon Ipsum plugin <= 2.4 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-06-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Chris McCoy Bacon Ipsum bacon-ipsum allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Bacon Ipsum: from n/a through <= 2.4.

Affected products

Chris McCoy Bacon Ipsum: through 2.4

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/bacon-ipsum/vulnerability/wordpress-bacon-ipsum-2-4-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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