CVE-2025-23619
Published: 03 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23619 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 Malicious Link (T1204.001); 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
Directly requires validation of user inputs to prevent improper neutralization leading to reflected XSS injection.
Mandates filtering of information outputs to neutralize malicious scripts reflected in web pages, addressing the core XSS execution mechanism.
Ensures timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws like this plugin's XSS vulnerability through patching and remediation processes.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS is exploited by sending a malicious link (T1204.001) that triggers arbitrary JS execution in the browser; this directly enables session hijacking via cookie theft (T1539) as explicitly noted in the CVE description.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Catch Themes Catch Duplicate Switcher catch-duplicate-switcher allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Catch Duplicate Switcher: from n/a through <= 2.0.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23619 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Catch Duplicate Switcher WordPress plugin developed by Catch Themes. The issue affects the plugin from unspecified initial versions through version 2.0 inclusive. Published on March 3, 2025, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), such as clicking a malicious link. The changed scope (S:C) enables execution of arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser context, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L). Potential outcomes include session hijacking, data theft, or phishing within the affected site.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/catch-duplicate-switcher/vulnerability/wordpress-catch-duplicate-switcher-plugin-2-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the Reflected XSS vulnerability specific to Catch Duplicate Switcher version 2.0.
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