CVE-2025-22332

High

Published: 31 January 2025

Published

31 January 2025

Modified

23 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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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 0.0008 23.9th percentile

Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22332 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 23.9th 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-2025-22332 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 shanaver CloudFlare(R) Cache Purge WordPress plugin (cloudflare-cache-purge), impacting versions from n/a through 1.2 inclusive. The issue was published on 2025-01-31.

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). Remote attackers require no privileges and can exploit it over the network with low attack complexity, though it demands user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation reflects attacker-controlled input in web page generation, potentially allowing limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope, such as session hijacking or client-side script execution in the victim's browser.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/cloudflare-cache-purge/vulnerability/wordpress-cloudflare-r-cache-purge-plugin-1-2-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, which covers the Reflected XSS in the WordPress CloudFlare(R) Cache Purge plugin version 1.2.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2732

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in shanaver CloudFlare(R) Cache Purge cloudflare-cache-purge allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects CloudFlare(R) Cache Purge: from n/a through <= 1.2.

CWE(s): CWE-79

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.

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T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution

An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.

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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS enables arbitrary client-side script execution in the victim's browser via crafted URLs, directly facilitating browser session hijacking (T1185) and exploitation through user interaction with malicious links (T1204.001).

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