Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23814

High

Published: 03 March 2025

Published
03 March 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 0.0035 57.6th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23814 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 in the top 42.4% 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).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-23814 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the CRUDLab Like Box WordPress plugin (crudlab-facebook-like-box). Published on 2025-03-03, it affects all versions from n/a through 2.0.9.

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). Remote attackers require no privileges and can exploit it over the network with low attack complexity by tricking authenticated users into performing an action, such as visiting a maliciously crafted URL. Successful exploitation enables script execution in the victim's browser context, potentially allowing limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope.

Advisories, including the Patchstack database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/crudlab-facebook-like-box/vulnerability/wordpress-crudlab-like-box-plugin-2-0-9-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, provide details on the vulnerability for WordPress administrators.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in CRUDLab CRUDLab Like Box crudlab-facebook-like-box allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects CRUDLab Like Box: from n/a through <= 2.0.9.

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 directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) via crafted URLs and allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser (T1059.007).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Enforces validation and sanitization of user inputs to prevent malicious XSS payloads from being improperly neutralized during web page generation in the CRUDLab plugin.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Requires filtering and encoding of output to block reflected XSS scripts from executing in the victim's browser context.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Mandates timely flaw remediation, such as patching the CRUDLab Like Box plugin vulnerability affecting versions through 2.0.9.

References