CVE-2025-22711

High

Published: 21 January 2025

Published

21 January 2025

Modified

29 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 0.0014 33.5th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-22711 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 JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 33.5th 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-2025-22711 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS), in the WordPress plugin Image Source Control (image-source-control-isc) by Thomas Maier. The issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 2.29.0 and is classified under CWE-79.

With 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), the vulnerability is exploitable over the network by unauthenticated attackers with low attack complexity, though it requires user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation changes the scope and allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially enabling attackers to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/image-source-control-isc/vulnerability/wordpress-image-source-control-lite-plugin-2-29-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the Reflected XSS vulnerability in Image Source Control version 2.29.0 and provides details on mitigation, which includes updating the plugin beyond the affected versions.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2935

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Thomas Maier Image Source Control image-source-control-isc allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Image Source Control: from n/a through <= 2.29.0.

CWE(s): CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.007 JavaScript Execution

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

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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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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser when triggered by a crafted malicious link, directly mapping to JavaScript scripting interpreter and user execution of malicious link.

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