Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-22567

High

Published: 13 January 2025

Published
13 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 0.0012 30.5th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22567 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-2025-22567 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79), in the trustist-reviewer WordPress plugin known as TRUSTist REVIEWer. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 2.0 inclusive.

The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated remote attackers over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no privileges required (PR:N), though it requires user interaction (UI:R). Exploitation results in a changed scope (S:C) with low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), yielding a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.

Patchstack's advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/trustist-reviewer/vulnerability/wordpress-trustist-reviewer-plugin-2-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the Reflected XSS vulnerability in the TRUSTist REVIEWer WordPress plugin version 2.0.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in trustist TRUSTist REVIEWer trustist-reviewer allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects TRUSTist REVIEWer: from n/a through <= 2.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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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 in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing apps (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in browser context (T1059.007).

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Directly remediates the specific reflected XSS flaw in TRUSTist REVIEWer plugin versions through <=2.0 by identifying, reporting, and applying security patches or updates.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Filters information outputs during web page generation to neutralize untrusted input and prevent reflected XSS execution in the browser.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Validates all inputs to the TRUSTist REVIEWer plugin to reject or sanitize malicious scripts before they are reflected in web responses.

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