CVE-2025-23685
Published: 03 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23685 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 16.1th 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-2025-23685 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WebTechGlobal RomanCart romancart-on-wordpress WordPress plugin. This issue affects RomanCart versions from n/a through 0.0.2 and was published on 2025-02-03.
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 network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it by injecting malicious scripts into reflected user input on affected sites, achieving limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope, typically allowing execution of scripts in the victim's browser context.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/romancart-on-wordpress/vulnerability/wordpress-romancart-on-wordpress-plugin-0-0-2-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3343
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in WebTechGlobal RomanCart romancart-on-wordpress allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects RomanCart: from n/a through <= 0.0.2.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) via crafted input and execution of arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser (T1059.007).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires filtering of information outputs to neutralize malicious scripts injected via reflected user input in web pages, addressing the core Improper Neutralization vulnerability.
Mandates validation of user inputs to prevent injection of malicious scripts that are reflected back in web pages without proper neutralization.
Ensures timely identification, reporting, and correction of the specific flaw in the RomanCart WordPress plugin, mitigating exploitation through patching.