CVE-2025-23544
Published: 23 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23544 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 Spearphishing Link (T1566.002); ranked at the 38.9th 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).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Filters information output to web pages to neutralize malicious scripts in reflected user input, directly preventing XSS exploitation in StatPressCN.
Validates and sanitizes user inputs to block injection of malicious JavaScript payloads before reflection on web pages.
Identifies, prioritizes, and remediates the specific XSS flaw in StatPressCN plugin versions <=1.9.1 through timely patching.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser when a crafted malicious link is clicked, directly mapping to spearphishing link delivery and JavaScript interpreter execution.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in heart5 StatPressCN statpresscn allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects StatPressCN: from n/a through <= 1.9.1.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23544 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the heart5 StatPressCN statpresscn WordPress plugin. This issue affects StatPressCN versions from n/a through <=1.9.1.
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, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it by injecting malicious scripts into reflected user input on web pages, achieving arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser context with changed scope, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/statpresscn/vulnerability/wordpress-statpresscn-plugin-1-9-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this reflected XSS vulnerability in the WordPress StatPressCN plugin version 1.9.1.
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