CVE-2025-23885
Published: 24 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23885 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 Malicious Link (T1204.001); ranked at the 32.1th 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).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-23885 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the MJ Contact Us WordPress plugin by anildhiman. The issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 5.2.3, enabling attackers to inject malicious scripts via unsanitized input reflected in web page generation.
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 remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no required privileges, though it demands user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Any unauthenticated attacker can trick victims into triggering the XSS payload on sites running vulnerable plugin versions, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope, typically allowing script execution in the victim's browser context.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/mj-contact-us/vulnerability/wordpress-mj-contact-us-plugin-5-2-3-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3503
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in anildhiman MJ Contact us mj-contact-us allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects MJ Contact us: from n/a through <= 5.2.3.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser (T1059.007) when triggered by a crafted malicious link requiring user interaction (T1204.001).
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly addresses the improper neutralization of input during web page generation by filtering outputs to prevent reflected XSS script execution.
Validates unsanitized user inputs to block malicious scripts from being accepted and reflected in the MJ Contact Us plugin responses.
Remediates the specific flaw in the WordPress plugin by identifying, testing, and installing patches for the XSS vulnerability within defined timeframes.