CVE-2025-22564

High

Published: 31 January 2025

Published

31 January 2025

Modified

23 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS Score 0.0008 23.9th percentile

Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22564 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 Malicious Link (T1204.001); ranked at the 23.9th 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-15 (Information Output Filtering) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-22564 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Pretty Url WordPress plugin by faaiq. This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through 1.5.4 inclusive.

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 it is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, but user interaction such as visiting a malicious link. Remote attackers can leverage reflected XSS to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in a victim's browser, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope.

The Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/pretty-url/vulnerability/wordpress-pretty-url-plugin-1-5-4-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) documents the Reflected XSS vulnerability in Pretty Url version 1.5.4 for WordPress.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2842

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in faaiq Pretty Url pretty-url allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Pretty Url: from n/a through <= 1.5.4.

CWE(s): CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution

An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.

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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser when visiting a crafted malicious link, directly enabling T1204.001 (Malicious Link under User Execution) and T1059.007 (JavaScript under Command and Scripting Interpreter).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1