CVE-2025-27266

WordPress Hover Image Button plugin <= 1.1.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

6.5 Medium

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Ignacio Perez Hover Image Button hover-image-button allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects Hover Image Button: from n/a through <= 1.1.2.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: Low
User interaction: Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: Low

Exploit likelihood

0.27%Up 0.2 points since Feb 27, 2025

What each source reports

CVE List Score used6.5

WordPress Hover Image Button plugin <= 1.1.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Record: CVE-2025-27266
CVSS 3.1: 6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness: CWE-79
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2025-43546.5

Record: EUVD-2025-4354
CVSS 3.1: 6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-w8hr-h827-x7c36.5

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')...

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Ignacio Perez Hover Image Button allows DOM-Based XSS. This issue affects Hover Image Button: from n/a through 1.1.2.

Record: GHSA-w8hr-h827-x7c3
CVSS 3.1: 6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness: CWE-79
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD6.5

Record: CVE-2025-27266
CVSS 3.1: 6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness: CWE-79
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

ignacio perez hover image button

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2025-27266 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Ignacio Perez Hover Image Button, published February 24, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.27%, the 19th percentile. No source names a fixed version.