CVE-2025-23960
Published: 23 January 2025
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 38.9th 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
SI-10 mandates validation of untrusted inputs such as URLs to prevent improper neutralization exploited in this reflected XSS vulnerability.
SI-15 requires output filtering and encoding to neutralize malicious scripts reflected in web page generation, directly mitigating CWE-79 XSS.
SI-2 ensures timely identification, reporting, and patching of flaws like this CVE in the WordPress plugin, eliminating the vulnerability.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
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).
NVD Description
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.
Deeper analysisAI
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.
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