Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23834

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-2025-23834 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-2025-23834 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WordPress plugin Links/Problem Reporter (report-broken-links) by RaminMT. The issue affects all versions from n/a through 2.6.0.

With 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), the vulnerability is exploitable over the network by unauthenticated attackers with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation enables limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a changed scope, allowing attackers to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser.

The Patchstack advisory documents this Reflected XSS vulnerability in the WordPress Links/Problem Reporter plugin up to version 2.6.0.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in RaminMT Links/Problem Reporter report-broken-links allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Links/Problem Reporter: from n/a through <= 2.6.0.

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 T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application) via crafted URLs; requires user interaction with malicious link, mapping to T1204.001 (Malicious Link).

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Filters untrusted user inputs prior to output on web pages, directly preventing reflected XSS script injection in the victim's browser.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Validates and sanitizes inputs to the report-broken-links functionality, blocking malicious payloads before they are reflected in generated web pages.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Requires timely remediation of the specific improper neutralization flaw in the WordPress plugin up to version 2.6.0 via patching or upgrades.

References