CVE-2025-23506

High

Published: 22 January 2025

Published

22 January 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 0.0030 53.6th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-23506 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 in the top 46.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; 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-2025-23506 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WP IMAP Auth plugin (wp-imap-authentication) developed by imsoftware. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 4.0.1 and was published on 2025-01-22.

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 such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can leverage reflected XSS to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in a victim's browser context, potentially achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-imap-authentication/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-imap-auth-plugin-4-0-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3216

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in imsoftware WP IMAP Auth wp-imap-authentication allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WP IMAP Auth: from n/a through <= 4.0.1.

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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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

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Why these techniques?

The reflected XSS vulnerability in the public-facing WP IMAP Auth plugin allows attackers to exploit public-facing applications (T1190) and execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser (T1059.007).

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