CVE-2025-22345
Published: 09 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22345 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 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-2025-22345 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the tsinf TS Comfort DB WordPress plugin (ts-comfort-database). This issue affects all versions from unknown initial release through 2.0.7.
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 injecting malicious scripts into reflected user input on affected sites, achieving limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/ts-comfort-database/vulnerability/wordpress-ts-comfort-db-plugin-2-0-7-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2744
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in tsinf TS Comfort DB ts-comfort-database allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects TS Comfort DB: from n/a through <= 2.0.7.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of internet-facing web apps (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browsers (T1059.007).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SI-10 mandates information input validation, directly addressing the improper neutralization of user input that enables reflected XSS in the TS Comfort DB WordPress plugin.
SI-15 requires output filtering to prevent malicious scripts from being rendered, comprehensively mitigating reflected XSS exploitation in the vulnerable plugin.
SI-2 ensures timely flaw remediation, such as patching the TS Comfort DB plugin beyond version 2.0.7, to eliminate the specific XSS vulnerability.