# CVE-2025-15703: WP Job Openings < 4.0.0 - Admin+ Stored XSS

> Administrators can inject malicious scripts into job settings, leading to stored XSS when other admins view the page, requiring multisite or specific config restrictions.

- **Severity:** Low 3.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 12 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w427-8f9x-wp42

## What is CVE-2025-15703?

CVE-2025-15703 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown HireZoot, published on 12 Oct 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The HireZoot  WordPress plugin before 4.0.0 does not sanitise and escape one of its job specification settings before it is reflected back into an admin-area settings page, allowing users with the HireZoot  WordPress plugin before 4.0.0's management capability (Administrator by default) to store a payload that is executed in the browser of any administrator who later opens that page. As the unfiltered_html capability is not available to administrators on multisite (or where DISALLOW_UNFILTERED_HTML is set), this leads to Stored Cross-Site Scripting.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-15703?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-15703?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-15703 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-15703 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-15703 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-15703 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-15703 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown HireZoot, published on 12 Oct 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-15703 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown HireZoot. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-15703/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-15703/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15703
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15703
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-15703

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-15703/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.