Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23751

High

Published: 14 February 2025

Published
14 February 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 0.0011 29.3th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23751 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 29.3th 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-2025-23751 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Think201 Data Dash plugin (data-dash) for WordPress. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.2.3, as published on 2025-02-14.

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 privileges required, but user interaction needed. Remote attackers can craft malicious payloads delivered via reflected inputs, tricking authenticated users (such as site administrators) into triggering the XSS through actions like visiting a malicious link, potentially leading to limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope.

The Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/data-dash/vulnerability/wordpress-data-dash-plugin-1-2-3-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) documents the Reflected XSS vulnerability specifically in Data Dash plugin version 1.2.3 for WordPress.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Think201 Data Dash data-dash allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Data Dash: from n/a through <= 1.2.3.

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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T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) via crafted malicious links that require user interaction to trigger script execution (T1204.001).

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Information Output Filtering directly mitigates reflected XSS by encoding or sanitizing user inputs before rendering them in web pages, preventing script injection in Data Dash plugin outputs.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Information Input Validation neutralizes malicious payloads in reflected inputs to the Data Dash WordPress plugin, blocking XSS exploitation at the entry point.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Flaw Remediation requires patching the specific XSS vulnerability in Data Dash versions through 1.2.3, eliminating the improper neutralization issue.

References