CVE-2025-23674
Published: 22 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23674 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 45.9th 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 mitigates reflected XSS by filtering web page outputs to neutralize malicious scripts before rendering in the victim's browser.
Validates untrusted inputs from network sources to reject or sanitize XSS payloads before they are processed by the Bit.ly linker plugin.
Remediates the specific flaw in the Bit.ly linker WordPress plugin through timely patching or removal up to version 1.1.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS is directly triggered by a crafted malicious link requiring user interaction (click), mapping to T1204.001; such links are commonly delivered via targeted phishing, mapping to T1566.002.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in andygauk Bit.ly linker bitly-linker allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Bit.ly linker: from n/a through <= 1.1.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23674 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Bit.ly linker WordPress plugin by andygauk. This issue affects all versions of the bitly-linker plugin up to and including 1.1.
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 it is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, but needing user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Any unauthenticated attacker can craft a malicious payload reflected in the plugin's web page generation, achieving arbitrary script execution in the victim's browser context with changed scope and low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory details this Reflected XSS vulnerability in the WordPress Bit.ly linker plugin version 1.1, providing vulnerability assessment and likely patch information in its database entry.
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