CVE-2025-23547
Published: 16 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23547 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 Browser Session Hijacking (T1185); ranked in the top 42.8% 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).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Requires timely identification, reporting, and patching of the reflected XSS flaw in the LH Login Page plugin versions through 2.14.
Filters and encodes untrusted inputs during web page generation on the login page to neutralize malicious scripts and prevent XSS execution.
Validates all inputs to the LH Login Page to reject malformed or malicious payloads that could lead to reflected XSS.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS on login page enables browser session hijacking via malicious script execution for token theft; typically delivered and facilitated by spearphishing links requiring user interaction.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in shawfactor LH Login Page lh-login-page allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects LH Login Page: from n/a through <= 2.14.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23547 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the shawfactor LH Login Page WordPress plugin (lh-login-page). This issue affects all versions from n/a through 2.14 inclusive, as published on 2025-01-16.
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 user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with crafted input on the login page, achieving limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability within the victim's browser scope, such as potential session token theft or malicious script execution.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/lh-login-page/vulnerability/wordpress-lh-login-page-plugin-2-14-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the vulnerability in the WordPress LH Login Page plugin version 2.14.
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