CVE-2025-23835
Published: 23 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23835 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 filters information outputs during web page generation to neutralize untrusted input and prevent reflected XSS script execution.
Validates user inputs to the WordPress plugin before processing, addressing improper neutralization that enables reflected XSS.
Remediates the specific flaw in the Legal + plugin by identifying, reporting, and correcting the XSS vulnerability through patching.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation of web app (T1190), arbitrary JavaScript execution in browser (T1059.007), and delivery via malicious links (T1204.001) or spearphishing (T1566.002).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in jmraya Legal + legal-plus allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Legal +: from n/a through <= 1.0.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23835 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the Legal + WordPress plugin (also referred to as legal-plus) developed by jmraya. This issue impacts all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.0 inclusive.
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 exploitation is possible over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, but necessitating user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Attackers can trick authenticated or unauthenticated users into executing arbitrary scripts in their browsers within the context of the vulnerable site, potentially leading to limited impacts on confidentiality (e.g., session hijacking), integrity, and availability with a changed scope.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/legal-plus/vulnerability/wordpress-legal-plugin-1-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this reflected XSS vulnerability in the Legal + WordPress plugin version 1.0 and provides details on affected installations.
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