Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23591

High

Published: 03 February 2025

Published
03 February 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
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 0.0004 12.7th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23591 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 12.7th 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-2025-23591 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the blu Logistics WordPress plugin (also referenced as blulogistics1 blu-logistics). This issue impacts all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.0.0 inclusive. The vulnerability was published on 2025-02-03.

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 privileges required, but user interaction needed, with changed scope and low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Remote attackers can exploit it by crafting malicious inputs that reflect back to users, such as via phishing links or manipulated requests, tricking authenticated users into executing scripts in their browsers within the site's context.

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

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in blulogistics1 blu Logistics blu-logistics allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects blu Logistics: from n/a through <= 1.0.0.

CWE(s)

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.
T1566.002 Spearphishing Link Initial Access
Adversaries may send spearphishing emails with a malicious link in an attempt to gain access to victim systems.
Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and facilitates delivery via spearphishing links (T1566.002).

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

SI-15 requires filtering of information outputs to prevent reflected XSS by encoding or escaping malicious inputs before rendering in web pages.

prevent

SI-10 enforces validation of user inputs to reject or sanitize malicious scripts that could be reflected back in the blu Logistics plugin responses.

prevent

SI-2 mandates identification and correction of flaws like this reflected XSS vulnerability through timely patching of the affected WordPress plugin.

References