CVE-2025-22753
Published: 15 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22753 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 Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203); ranked at the 27.7th 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 prevents reflected XSS by requiring filtering of information output to web pages to block cross-site scripting attacks.
Enforces input validation to neutralize untrusted inputs during web page generation, addressing the core improper neutralization flaw in the turboSMTP plugin.
Mandates identification, reporting, and correction of flaws like this reflected XSS vulnerability through timely patching of the affected WordPress plugin.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS enables arbitrary client-side script execution via crafted links (T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution) and is delivered through targeted malicious links (T1566.002 Spearphishing Link).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in turboSMTP turboSMTP turbosmtp allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects turboSMTP: from n/a through <= 4.6.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-22753 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the turboSMTP WordPress plugin. The issue impacts all versions of turboSMTP from n/a through 4.6 inclusive and was published on 2025-01-15.
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 needed, and a changed scope. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with maliciously crafted links or inputs reflected in web pages generated by the plugin, enabling arbitrary script execution in the victim's browser context with low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/turbosmtp/vulnerability/wordpress-turbosmtp-plugin-4-6-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
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