Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-22331

High

Published: 09 January 2025

Published
09 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0023 46.2th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22331 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Browser Session Hijacking (T1185); ranked at the 46.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-22331 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) as classified under CWE-79. It affects the P3JX Cf7Save Extension (cf7save-extension) WordPress plugin, impacting all versions from n/a through 1. The issue was published on 2025-01-09.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L), indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with crafted input reflected in web pages, achieving limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope, such as session token theft or malicious script execution in the victim's browser.

The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this WordPress plugin vulnerability at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/cf7save-extension/vulnerability/wordpress-cf7save-extension-plugin-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in P3JX Cf7Save Extension cf7save-extension allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Cf7Save Extension: from n/a through <= 1.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection
Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS directly enables browser script execution (T1059.007) and facilitates session hijacking/cookie theft (T1185, T1539) via malicious links.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

SI-10 directly addresses the improper neutralization of input by requiring validation of web inputs to block malicious payloads used in reflected XSS attacks.

prevent

SI-15 prevents reflected XSS by filtering and encoding information outputs before rendering in web pages, neutralizing script injection.

prevent

SI-2 mandates identifying, reporting, and remediating flaws such as this XSS vulnerability in the Cf7Save WordPress plugin through patching.

References