CVE-2025-23518

High

Published: 03 March 2025

Published

03 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 29.3th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-23518 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 29.3th 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-2025-23518 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the GoogleMapper WordPress plugin (googlemapper-2) developed by mrsaucier. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 2.0.3.

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 required privileges, but user interaction such as visiting a malicious link. Remote attackers can inject and execute arbitrary scripts in the context of the affected site, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope.

Patchstack advisories document this Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in GoogleMapper 2.0.3 and provide details on affected WordPress plugin instances, urging practitioners to consult the database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/googlemapper-2/vulnerability/wordpress-googlemapper-plugin-2-0-3-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve for mitigation guidance, such as applying available updates.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-5750

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in mrsaucier GoogleMapper googlemapper-2 allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects GoogleMapper: from n/a through <= 2.0.3.

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 WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) via crafted URLs and allows injection/execution of arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser context (T1059.007).

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