{"id":69709,"date":"2025-09-08T16:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40642-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-in-webwork\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:01:33","slug":"cve-2025-40642-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-in-webwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40642-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-in-webwork\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-40642 &#8211; Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in WebWork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-40642<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Sept. 8, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 38\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebWork, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through the &#8216;q&#8217; and &#8216;engine&#8217; request parameters in \/search.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 5.1 | MEDIUM<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40642 Published : Sept. 8, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 38\u00a0minutes ago Description : Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebWork, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through the &#8216;q&#8217; and &#8216;engine&#8217; request parameters in \/search. Severity: 5.1 | MEDIUM Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}