CVE-2025-22575
Published: 28 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22575 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 Spearphishing Link (T1566.002); ranked at the 36.0th 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
Directly addresses reflected XSS by requiring filtering of information output prior to transmission, neutralizing malicious scripts reflected in the SUPER RESPONSIVE SLIDER plugin's web pages.
Enforces input validation at entry points to the SUPER RESPONSIVE SLIDER plugin, preventing improper neutralization of malicious input that leads to XSS.
Requires timely remediation of the specific flaw in SUPER RESPONSIVE SLIDER versions <=1.4, eliminating the XSS vulnerability through patching.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS requires tricking users into interacting with crafted malicious links/requests to reflect and execute scripts in the browser, directly enabling/facilitating T1192 Spearphishing Link and T1204.001 Malicious Link.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in extendyourweb SUPER RESPONSIVE SLIDER super-slider allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects SUPER RESPONSIVE SLIDER: from n/a through <= 1.4.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-22575 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) as classified under CWE-79. It affects the SUPER RESPONSIVE SLIDER (super-slider) plugin for WordPress, developed by extendyourweb, across all versions up to and including 1.4.
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, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with crafted requests, resulting in the reflection of malicious scripts in the browser. This can lead to low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a changed scope due to the cross-origin context.
Mitigation guidance is available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/super-slider/vulnerability/wordpress-super-responsive-slider-plugin-1-4-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
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