PhotographyWordPress extension · Themegoods
CVE-2025-64217
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 · uneditedImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in ThemeGoods Photography photography allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Photography: from n/a through <= 7.7.2.
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 confidenceReflected XSS vulnerability in ThemeGoods Photography WordPress theme allows attackers to inject malicious JavaScript through unsanitized user input that gets reflected in web pages without proper output encoding. The vulnerability exists in versions up to and including 7.7.2.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
PhotographyWordPress extension
<= 7.7.2CVSS 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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Check the installed theme versionLocate the style.css file in wp-content/themes/photography/ (or your theme folder) and look for the 'Version:' header in the theme comments. Alternatively, in WordPress admin go to Appearance > Themes and click on the Photography theme to view its details.Affected if The version listed is 7.7.2 or lower.
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Compare version to affected rangeIf you found a version number, compare it to the affected range: <= 7.7.2. Any version at 7.7.2 or below is within the vulnerable range.Affected if Your installed version is 7.7.2 or any lower version number.
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Identify user input reflection pointsReview theme PHP files (especially templates, shortcodes, and template-parts) for code that reads $_GET, $_POST, or $_REQUEST parameters and outputs them directly into HTML without encoding functions like esc_html(), esc_attr(), or wp_kses().Affected if You find code that reflects request parameters directly into HTML output without sanitization.
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Test for reflected XSS manuallyUsing a browser or burp, submit GET parameters with benign test payloads (like <script>alert(1)</script> or "><img src=x onerror=alert(1)>) to common theme pages and query strings. Inspect the response to see if the payload is rendered as-is without encoding.Affected if The test payload appears in the page response unencoded and executable.
You are affected if the Photography theme version is 7.7.2 or lower AND user-supplied parameters are being reflected in pages without proper output encoding.
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 proper input validation and output encoding/escaping for all user-supplied parameters before reflecting them in HTML responses. Update to the latest patched version of the Photography theme when available.
Fix this in Photography
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation6.0 h
- Testing3.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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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-2025-64217 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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