CVE-2025-23492
Published: 14 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23492 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 27.4th 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 filtering web page outputs to neutralize malicious scripts injected via untrusted user inputs in the taobaoke plugin.
Validates information inputs to the WordPress plugin, preventing malicious payloads from being processed and reflected in web pages.
Remediates the specific improper input neutralization flaw in CantonBolo taobaoke plugin versions through timely patching and updates.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS directly enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser (T1059.007) when triggered by a malicious link requiring user interaction (T1204.001).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in CantonBolo WordPress 淘宝客插件 taobaoke allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WordPress 淘宝客插件: from n/a through <= 1.1.2.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23492 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the CantonBolo WordPress 淘宝客插件 taobaoke. This issue impacts all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.1.2. The vulnerability was published on 2025-02-14T13:15:43.573 and 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 remotely over the network with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges but user interaction, such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation changes the security scope and results in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, typically allowing execution of arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context.
Patchstack documents this Reflected XSS vulnerability in their database entry for the taobaoke WordPress plugin version 1.1.2, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/taobaoke/vulnerability/wordpress-plugin-1-1-2-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
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