Empty Tags Remover

Empty Tags Remover has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.1, and the most serious one scores 6.1 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Empty Tags Remover has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by 0xd4rk5id3. Empty Tags Remover is installed on roughly 100 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.7.7.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.1/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 6.1CVE-2025-24640

Empty Tags Remover <= 1.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2025-01-20 00:00	Empty Tags Remover <= 1.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Empty Tags Remover <= 1.0	`CVE-2025-24640`	6.1 Medium	0xd4rk5id3	Yes

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Plugin Profile

Latestv1.2.3

Empty Tags Remover

Author

Dan-Lucian Stefancu

5.0(2)

100/100

Last Updated

2024-12-13 (2y ago)

Active Installs

100+

Downloads

8,179

Requires WP

2.5+

Requires PHP

Tested up to

WP 6.7.7

Created

2009-06-24 (18y ago)

Empty Tags Remover adds a page called ‘Remove empty tags’ under ‘Posts’ admin menu where you can simply remove all the empty tags with just one click.

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