CVE-2025-23960

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 0.0018 39.1th percentile

Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23960 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 39.1th 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-2025-23960, published on 2025-01-23, is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79. It affects the WordPress plugin "Save & Import Image from URL" developed by basteln3rk, impacting all versions from n/a through 0.7 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 network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with crafted input, resulting in reflected XSS execution in the victim's browser context with changed scope, enabling low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as session token theft or malicious script injection.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/save-import-image-from-url/vulnerability/wordpress-save-import-image-from-url-plugin-0-7-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the vulnerability in this WordPress plugin.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3570

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in basteln3rk Save & Import Image from URL save-import-image-from-url allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Save & Import Image from URL: from n/a through <= 0.7.

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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T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access

An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.

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Why these techniques?

The reflected XSS vulnerability in the public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and facilitates session token theft via malicious script injection in the victim's browser (T1539).

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