CVE-2025-23678
Published: 22 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23678 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 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-15 (Information Output Filtering) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
SI-15 requires filtering of information prior to output to web pages, directly preventing reflected XSS by neutralizing malicious scripts in the LocalGrid plugin's generated pages.
SI-10 enforces validation of user inputs, mitigating the CVE by rejecting or sanitizing malicious payloads before they are processed and reflected by the vulnerable plugin.
SI-2 mandates timely flaw remediation, such as patching the LocalGrid plugin versions through 1.0.1 to eliminate the specific XSS vulnerability.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation via crafted malicious links requiring user interaction.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Md Imranur Rahman LocalGrid localgrid allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects LocalGrid: from n/a through <= 1.0.1.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23678 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the LocalGrid WordPress plugin developed by Md Imranur Rahman. The issue affects LocalGrid versions from n/a through 1.0.1, allowing improper handling of user input during web page generation.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring user interaction such as clicking a malicious link (UI:R) and no privileges (PR:N). Exploitation changes scope (S:C), enabling low-impact effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), for an overall CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/localgrid/vulnerability/wordpress-localgrid-plugin-1-0-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this Reflected XSS vulnerability in the WordPress LocalGrid plugin version 1.0.1. Security practitioners should review this reference for details on mitigation and available patches.
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