Simple Business Directory Pro <= 15.5.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 15.5.2
- Affected Plugin
- Simple Business Directory Pro
- Affected Version
<= 15.5.1- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2025-48162
At a glance
CVE-2025-48162 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Simple Business Directory Pro WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 15.5.1. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 15.5.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2025, reported by João Pedro Soares de Alcântara.
Vulnerability Overview
The Simple Business Directory Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 15.5.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Simple Business Directory Pro <= 15.5.1 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Simple Business Directory Pro the fix is 15.5.2: builds <= 15.5.1 are affected, anything from 15.5.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 15.5.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Simple Business Directory Pro: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Simple Business Directory Pro 15.5.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
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