CVE-2025-23592

High

Published: 22 January 2025

Published

22 January 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 0.0034 57.4th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-23592 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 in the top 42.6% 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).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-23592 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the dForms WordPress plugin by animexxx. This issue affects dForms versions from n/a through 1.0 inclusive. The vulnerability was published on 2025-01-22 with 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).

A remote attacker requires no privileges and can exploit this over the network with low complexity, though user interaction is necessary, such as a victim clicking a malicious link. Exploitation enables script injection into reflected web page content, potentially compromising low levels of confidentiality, integrity, and availability while changing scope to affect additional resources.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/dforms/vulnerability/wordpress-dforms-plugin-1-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the reflected XSS in the WordPress dForms plugin version 1.0.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3269

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in animexxx dForms dforms allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects dForms: from n/a through <= 1.0.

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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T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution

An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.

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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190), JavaScript execution via script injection (T1059.007), and requires user interaction with malicious links (T1204.001).

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