CVE-2025-30560
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Sana Ullah jQuery Dropdown Menu jquery-drop-down-menu-plugin allows Stored XSS.This issue affects jQuery Dropdown Menu: from n/a through <= 3.0.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA CSRF vulnerability in the jQuery Dropdown Menu plugin (versions <= 3.0) allows authenticated administrators to be tricked into submitting malicious requests that inject stored XSS payloads into the dropdown menu data. When other users view or interact with the affected menu, the injected JavaScript executes in their browsers, enabling session hijacking or credential theft.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify jQuery Dropdown Menu plugin installationLocate the jQuery Dropdown Menu plugin in your CMS or web application plugin directory, or check your software inventory for this plugin nameAffected if the plugin is installed and its version is 3.0 or lower
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Confirm installed version numberAccess the plugin settings page, read the plugin metadata file, or query the plugin version through your application's admin interfaceAffected if the version returned is 3.0 or any version number lower than 3.0 (e.g., 2.x, 1.x)
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Identify admin-accessible menu configuration endpointsReview your application's routing or examine the plugin's admin menu configuration pages where dropdown menu items can be created or editedAffected if the plugin provides web-accessible forms or API endpoints that allow authenticated administrators to modify dropdown menu data
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Inspect stored dropdown menu data for injected contentExamine the database tables or configuration files where dropdown menu items are stored, looking for unencoded HTML, script tags, or JavaScript event handlers in menu label or value fieldsAffected if any stored menu data contains raw HTML tags, script elements, or javascript: URIs that suggest XSS injection has occurred
You are affected if the jQuery Dropdown Menu plugin version 3.0 or lower is installed and allows web-based administrative modification of menu items without anti-CSRF protections.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens on all state-changing forms and endpoints, and apply context-aware output encoding/sanitization on all user-supplied data before storing and rendering it in the dropdown menu.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-30560 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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