CVE-2025-22335
Published: 07 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22335 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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 45.9th 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).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
SI-15 requires filtering and encoding of information prior to display on web pages, directly neutralizing reflected XSS payloads in the vulnerable Opencart Product in WP plugin.
SI-10 enforces validation of all inputs to the web application, preventing malicious XSS scripts from being accepted and reflected by the plugin.
SI-2 mandates timely identification, testing, and installation of software patches, remediating the specific XSS flaw in Opencart Product in WP versions through 1.0.1.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation via T1190; facilitates browser session hijacking (T1185) and web session cookie theft (T1539) through reflected script execution.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in rajib.dewan Opencart Product in WP opencart-product-in-wp allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Opencart Product in WP: from n/a through <= 1.0.1.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-22335 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the Opencart Product in WP WordPress plugin developed by rajib.dewan. The issue impacts all versions from n/a through 1.0.1, allowing malicious input to be reflected in web pages without proper sanitization.
With 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), the vulnerability is exploitable over the network by unauthenticated attackers with low complexity, requiring user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation enables limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope, potentially allowing attackers to steal session cookies, perform actions on behalf of the victim, or deface pages in the user's browser context.
The Patchstack advisory documents the Reflected XSS vulnerability in Opencart Product in WP plugin version 1.0.1, providing details on the affected WordPress plugin.
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