CVE-2025-22498
Published: 13 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22498 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 25.0th 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
Requires filtering of information outputs during web page generation to neutralize reflected XSS payloads before they execute in the victim's browser.
Mandates validation of user inputs to block malicious scripts from being accepted and reflected in LucidLMS web pages.
Directly addresses remediation of the specific reflected XSS flaw in the LucidLMS WordPress plugin through identification, patching, and verification.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS directly enables browser script execution for session hijacking (T1185) and is delivered via malicious/phishing links (T1566.002).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in N3wNormal LucidLMS lucidlms allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects LucidLMS: from n/a through <= 1.0.5.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-22498 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the N3wNormal LucidLMS (lucidlms) WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.0.5. Published on 2025-01-13, it 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, user interaction needed, changed scope, and low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Remote attackers can exploit this Reflected XSS without authentication by crafting malicious inputs or links that a user must interact with, such as clicking a phishing link. Upon reflection during web page generation, this executes arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context, potentially enabling session hijacking, data theft, or other client-side attacks, with the changed scope allowing influence beyond the targeted user or resource.
The Patchstack advisory provides details on this WordPress plugin vulnerability, including recommendations for mitigation, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/lucidlms/vulnerability/wordpress-lucidlms-plugin-1-0-5-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
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