CVE-2025-22506
Published: 13 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22506 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 30.5th 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-2025-22506 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Smart Agenda WordPress plugin (smart-agenda-prise-de-rendez-vous-en-ligne). This issue affects all versions of the plugin from an unspecified initial release through 4.7.
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, user interaction needed, and changed scope with low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Attackers can exploit it without authentication by leveraging CSRF to inject malicious payloads that enable stored XSS, allowing execution of scripts in the browser context of authenticated users or site visitors who view affected pages.
The Patchstack advisory provides further details on the vulnerability, documented as a CSRF-to-Stored XSS issue in Smart Agenda plugin version 4.7, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/smart-agenda-prise-de-rendez-vous-en-ligne/vulnerability/wordpress-smart-agenda-plugin-4-7-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2787
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Smart Agenda Smart Agenda smart-agenda-prise-de-rendez-vous-en-ligne allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Smart Agenda: from n/a through <= 4.7.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS via CSRF in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browsers (T1059.007).
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly addresses improper neutralization during web page generation by requiring output filtering to prevent execution of stored malicious scripts in user browsers.
Enforces validation of untrusted inputs to block injection of XSS payloads via CSRF in the Smart Agenda plugin.
Requires timely remediation of the known stored XSS flaw in Smart Agenda plugin versions through 4.7 by applying security patches.