CVE-2025-23753
Published: 03 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23753 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 Steal Web Session Cookie (T1539); ranked in the top 42.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; 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 remediates the reflected XSS flaw in the DN Sitemap Control WordPress plugin through timely identification, reporting, and patching.
Prevents reflected XSS exploitation by filtering and encoding plugin-generated web page output to neutralize malicious input scripts.
Addresses improper input neutralization by validating and sanitizing user inputs before web page generation in the DN Sitemap Control plugin.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS allows execution of arbitrary JS in victim's browser when a crafted URL is visited; this directly enables stealing web session cookies (T1539) and is typically delivered/exploited via spearphishing links (T1566.002) to trick authenticated users like admins.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in digireturn DN Sitemap Control dn-sitemap-control allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects DN Sitemap Control: from n/a through <= 1.0.6.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23753 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the digireturn DN Sitemap Control (dn-sitemap-control) WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.0.6, as published on 2025-03-03.
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. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated users—such as site administrators—into interacting with malicious input reflected in web pages generated by the plugin, potentially leading to limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope.
Patchstack's advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/dn-sitemap-control/vulnerability/wordpress-dn-sitemap-control-plugin-1-0-6-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the Reflected XSS in DN Sitemap Control version 1.0.6 and provides vulnerability information for mitigation guidance.
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