CVE-2025-23585

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-2025-23585 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-2025-23585 is an improper neutralization of input during web page generation vulnerability, specifically a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) issue classified under CWE-79, in the CantonBolo Goo.gl Url Shorter WordPress plugin (googl-url-shorter). This flaw affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.0.1.

The vulnerability has 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 exploitation over the network with low complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction. A remote unauthenticated attacker can craft a malicious URL containing an XSS payload and trick a targeted user, such as an authenticated WordPress administrator, into visiting it. Upon execution in the victim's browser, the attacker can achieve low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope, potentially leading to theft of session cookies, account takeover, or further site compromise.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/googl-url-shorter/vulnerability/wordpress-goo-gl-url-shorter-plugin-1-0-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-5726

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in CantonBolo Goo.gl Url Shorter googl-url-shorter allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Goo.gl Url Shorter: from n/a through <= 1.0.1.

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?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 (exploiting the vulnerable web app over network) and T1059.007 (arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim's browser via crafted URL).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0