CVE-2025-23600
Published: 03 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23600 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 46.2th 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-2025-23600 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Send to a Friend Addon plugin (send-booking-invites-to-friends) developed by pinal.shah for WordPress. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 1.4.1. The vulnerability was published on 2025-03-03.
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, and user interaction needed, with a changed scope leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with maliciously crafted links or inputs reflected in the web page, enabling script execution in the victim's browser context.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/send-booking-invites-to-friends/vulnerability/wordpress-send-to-a-friend-addon-plugin-1-4-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-5691
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in pinal.shah Send to a Friend Addon send-booking-invites-to-friends allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Send to a Friend Addon: from n/a through <= 1.4.1.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The reflected XSS vulnerability in the public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190), requires user interaction with maliciously crafted links (T1204.001), and facilitates arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser context (T1059.007).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Filters web page outputs to neutralize malicious scripts reflected from untrusted user inputs, directly preventing reflected XSS execution in victim browsers.
Validates and sanitizes user inputs to the Send to a Friend Addon before processing, blocking injection of XSS payloads.
Remediates the specific improper input neutralization flaw in the plugin by identifying, patching, and deploying updates beyond version 1.4.1.