CVE-2025-23648

High

Published: 14 February 2025

Published

14 February 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 0.0011 29.3th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-23648 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 29.3th 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-2025-23648 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the AdsMiddle WordPress plugin by wjharil. This issue affects AdsMiddle versions from n/a through 1.0 inclusive. Published on 2025-02-14, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.

The vulnerability enables exploitation over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), and results in a changed scope (S:C) with low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L). Remote attackers can craft malicious links or inputs that, when interacted with by users visiting affected sites, trigger reflected XSS payloads in the browser context, potentially leading to session hijacking, data exfiltration, or other client-side script execution.

Patchstack has documented this vulnerability in an advisory specific to the WordPress AdsMiddle plugin version 1.0, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/adsmiddle/vulnerability/wordpress-adsmiddle-plugin-1-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3312

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in wjharil AdsMiddle adsmiddle allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects AdsMiddle: 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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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?

The reflected XSS in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly maps to exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and requires crafting malicious links for user interaction to trigger client-side script execution (T1204.001).

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