CVE-2025-23727

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 0.0019 40.4th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-23727 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 40.4th 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-2025-23727 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the AZ Content Finder WordPress plugin developed by antonzaroutski. This issue affects the plugin in all versions from n/a through 0.1 inclusive. Published on 2025-01-23, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.

The vulnerability can be exploited remotely 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 to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L). Any unauthenticated attacker can craft malicious payloads that reflect off the vulnerable plugin when a user visits a manipulated URL, enabling script execution in the victim's browser context.

The Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/az-content-finder/vulnerability/wordpress-az-content-finder-plugin-0-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) documents the Reflected XSS vulnerability in AZ Content Finder version 0.1 for WordPress, providing details for security practitioners to assess and address exposure in affected environments.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3374

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in antonzaroutski AZ Content Finder az-content-finder allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects AZ Content Finder: from n/a through <= 0.1.

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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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation of web application (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browser (T1059.007).

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