CVE-2025-23624

High

Published: 23 January 2025

Published

23 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 0.0018 39.1th percentile

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

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 39.1th 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-2025-23624 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.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3293

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s): CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

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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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

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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).

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