CVE-2025-22570
Published: 13 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22570 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 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
SI-10 directly enforces proper validation and neutralization of user inputs to prevent stored XSS payloads from being accepted and persisted by the Inline Tweets plugin.
SI-15 mandates filtering and encoding of outputs during web page generation to block execution of injected scripts in users' browsers when viewing affected pages.
SI-2 ensures timely identification, patching, and deployment of fixes for the specific flaw in Inline Tweets versions through 2.0, remediating the stored XSS vulnerability.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) and client-side script execution in victim browsers (T1203).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in mdjekic Inline Tweets inline-tweets allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Inline Tweets: from n/a through <= 2.0.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-22570 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Inline Tweets WordPress plugin by mdjekic. The issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 2.0 inclusive. 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).
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity and no required privileges, though successful exploitation requires user interaction. By injecting malicious payloads through the plugin's input handling, adversaries can store scripts that execute in the browser context of authenticated or other users viewing affected pages, potentially leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope.
The Patchstack advisory provides further details on the vulnerability, including mitigation recommendations, at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/inline-tweets/vulnerability/wordpress-inline-tweets-plugin-2-0-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
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