Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23466

High

Published: 26 March 2025

Published
26 March 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 0.0011 29.9th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23466 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 29.9th 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-2025-23466 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 Site Editor Google Map WordPress plugin (site-editor-google-map) developed by wpsiteeditor, impacting all versions from n/a through 1.0.1.

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, but necessitating user interaction. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with malicious input, such as via a crafted link or payload reflected in web page generation. Exploitation achieves low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope, typically allowing execution of arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/site-editor-google-map/vulnerability/wordpress-site-editor-google-map-plugin-1-0-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the issue and provides guidance on mitigation for the Site Editor Google Map plugin.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in wpsiteeditor Site Editor Google Map site-editor-google-map allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Site Editor Google Map: from n/a through <= 1.0.1.

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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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 in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation of web app via crafted malicious links requiring user interaction.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Directly mitigates CVE-2025-23466 by remediating the reflected XSS flaw in the Site Editor Google Map WordPress plugin through timely patching.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Prevents execution of reflected XSS payloads by filtering inappropriate content from web page outputs generated by the vulnerable plugin.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Addresses improper neutralization of input in the plugin by validating all user-supplied data used in web page generation.

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