CVE-2025-22569

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-2025-22569 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-2025-22569 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the GrandSlambert Featured Page Widget WordPress plugin (featured-page-widget). This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 2.2 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 privileges required, but user interaction is needed. Remote attackers can trick authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with maliciously crafted content, such as a specially prepared link or input reflected in the generated web page, leading to execution of arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context with changed scope and low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Mitigation details are documented in the Patchstack vulnerability database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/featured-page-widget/vulnerability/wordpress-featured-page-widget-plugin-2-2-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2845

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in GrandSlambert Featured Page Widget featured-page-widget allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Featured Page Widget: from n/a through <= 2.2.

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 the web application (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim browser (T1059.007).

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