CVE-2025-22361
Published: 09 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22361 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
Directly mitigates reflected XSS by requiring filtering and encoding of user inputs prior to inclusion in web page generation to neutralize malicious scripts.
Enforces validation of untrusted inputs to the Opentracker Analytics plugin, preventing improper neutralization that enables script injection.
Requires timely identification, testing, and deployment of patches for the specific XSS flaw in Opentracker Analytics versions through 1.3.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation via malicious link (T1190 + T1204.001) leading to arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browser (T1059.007).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Opentracker Opentracker Analytics opentracker-analytics allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Opentracker Analytics: from n/a through <= 1.3.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-22361 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Opentracker Analytics WordPress plugin (opentracker-analytics). Published on 2025-01-09, it affects all versions from n/a through 1.3 inclusive, 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).
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges but relying on user interaction, such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation changes the scope to cross-origin and enables arbitrary script execution in the context of the victim's browser session, potentially allowing limited impacts on confidentiality (e.g., session data exposure), integrity (e.g., data modification), and availability.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/opentracker-analytics/vulnerability/wordpress-opentracker-analytics-plugin-1-3-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details this WordPress plugin issue and associated mitigations.
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