CVE-2025-23737
Published: 24 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23737 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 40.1th 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).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly requires validation of untrusted inputs to prevent improper neutralization that enables reflected XSS payloads in the WordPress plugin.
Mandates filtering and encoding of information outputs prior to rendering, neutralizing malicious scripts reflected in web page generation.
Requires timely identification, reporting, and remediation of flaws like this reflected XSS vulnerability in vulnerable plugin versions.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) and requires delivery via crafted malicious links that trigger user interaction (T1204.001).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in thobian Network-Favorites network-favorites allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Network-Favorites: from n/a through <= 1.1.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23737 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the thobian Network-Favorites WordPress plugin. This flaw affects Network-Favorites versions from n/a through 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 necessitating user interaction. Remote attackers can leverage reflected XSS by tricking users into interacting with malicious input, such as via crafted links or payloads reflected in web page generation, potentially leading to low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope.
The Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/network-favorites/vulnerability/wordpress-network-favorites-plugin-1-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) details this Reflected XSS issue in the WordPress Network-Favorites plugin version 1.1.
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