CVE-2025-23624
Published: 23 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23624 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 at the 38.9th 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).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly enforces validation of user inputs to prevent improper neutralization leading to reflected XSS in the WordPress plugin.
Mandates filtering and encoding of outputs during web page generation to block execution of injected scripts in victims' browsers.
Requires timely identification and remediation of the specific flaw in WpDevTool versions through 0.1.1 to eliminate the XSS vulnerability.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS vulnerability directly enables crafting malicious links (T1204.001) that trigger arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser (T1059.007).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Alessandro Benoit WpDevTool wpdevtool allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WpDevTool: from n/a through <= 0.1.1.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23624 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WpDevTool WordPress plugin developed by Alessandro Benoit. This issue affects WpDevTool versions from n/a through 0.1.1 inclusive. The vulnerability was published on 2025-01-23 and 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).
Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity and no privileges required, though it requires user interaction such as visiting a maliciously crafted link. Exploitation enables reflected XSS, allowing attackers to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser, with changed scope leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory documents this Reflected XSS vulnerability in the WordPress WpDevTool plugin version 0.1.1.
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