Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessReach plugin-handled registration input
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DeliverySubmit crafted script payload
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ExploitPayload stored or reflected unsanitized
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ExecutionScript renders in victim browser
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ImpactRun script in site context
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization HTML tag escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The specific injectable feature, field, or configuration is not described in the available sources, and the trigger is not detailed beyond 'Basic XSS' allowing code/content injection in User Registration ≤5.3.0. Per the CVSS vector it is reachable over the network without authentication (PR:N) against affected installations. LIMITING FACTORS: as an XSS/content-injection class flaw, successful impact realistically depends on the injected script being rendered in a victim's browser (victim viewing the affected page), despite the vector listing UI:N; impact is confined to low confidentiality (C:L) with no integrity or availability effect per the supplied vector, and exploitation is bounded to sites running the vulnerable plugin version. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) Basic XSS / content-injection issue (CWE-80) in the ThemeGrill User Registration WordPress plugin, affecting versions up to and including 5.3.0, reported by Patchstack. The supplied CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) indicates remote, low-complexity, unauthenticated reachability with only low confidentiality impact and no integrity or availability impact. There is no KEV listing, no EPSS score and no EPSS percentile in the input, and no verified exploit code - exploitation status is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month', i.e. a scheduled-remediation priority rather than act_now/emergency. CONFLICT TO VERIFY: the CVSS vector sets UI:N and S:U with only C:L, which is atypical for an XSS/code-injection flaw - stored or reflected XSS normally requires a victim to render the payload (UI:R) and usually causes a scope change (S:C) with some integrity impact; this suggests the score may understate or mis-model the real mechanism, so treat the exact impact as unverified. Overall this reads as a genuine but modest-priority web-application flaw, not a high-urgency widespread-exploitation event; the absence of EPSS and PoC confirmation means exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified from the provided data. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker submits a crafted script-bearing value into an input processed by the User Registration plugin on a WordPress site running version 5.3.0 or earlier, and the unsanitized HTML/script is later rendered in a browser, executing in that page's context (e.g. to run attacker script against a visitor or administrator). The exact injectable field and whether the payload is stored or reflected are not described in the available sources. No public exploit has been identified; per the CVSS vector reachability is network-based and does not require authentication (PR:N), though the vector's UI:N conflicts with the user-rendering typically needed for XSS. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 29, 2026
Basic cross-site scripting (XSS) in ThemeGrill User Registration through 5.3.0 allows remote attackers to inject script-related HTML/content into pages served by affected WordPress sites. Sites running the vulnerable plugin version are affected, and the independent assessment rates this medium severity (CVSS 5.3) with limited impact and no availability effect indicated. The supplied intelligence shows no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis, and the provided data does not list a fixed version. Monitor the Patchstack advisory for a patched release. Because the injectable feature is not described, the most reliable mitigation is to disable or remove the User Registration plugin until a fixed version is available; the side effect is loss of registration functionality. If continued use is required, restrict access to registration forms and pages and review rendered content for script-related HTML, but these are compensating controls rather than a complete fix.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
CWE-80 is improper neutralization of script-related HTML tags, a Basic XSS/content-injection class in which script-capable HTML is not adequately escaped or filtered before being rendered. The affected component is the ThemeGrill User Registration WordPress plugin, identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:themegrill:user_registration:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, with the advisory scope covering versions through 5.3.0. The available sources do not describe the specific injectable field, page, hook, or trigger. The independent assessment applies CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating network reachability, low complexity, no privileges, user interaction, scope change, and low confidentiality/integrity impact, and notes that successful impact realistically depends on the injected script being rendered in a victim's browser.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Basic XSS: unauthenticated network input (PR:N/AV:N/AC:L), but a victim must render the injected script (UI:R) which executes cross-context (S:C) for low C/I impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
DescriptionCVE.org
Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in ThemeGrill User Registration user-registration allows Code Injection.This issue affects User Registration: from n/a through 5.3.0.
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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