Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-24554

High

Published: 14 February 2025

Published
14 February 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 0.0013 32.1th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-24554 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 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-2025-24554 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the awcode-toolkit WordPress plugin from AWcode. It affects all versions from n/a through 1.0.14 inclusive. Published on 2025-02-14T13:15:48.113, the issue 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).

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and no required privileges, though it demands user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Upon successful exploitation, adversaries achieve reflected XSS execution in the victim's browser, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but with a changed scope that could enable actions like session hijacking or client-side script injection.

The primary advisory from Patchstack documents this reflected XSS vulnerability specifically in WordPress AWcode Toolkit plugin version 1.0.14, providing details via its vulnerability database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/awcode-toolkit/vulnerability/wordpress-awcode-toolkit-plugin-1-0-14-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in awcode AWcode Toolkit awcode-toolkit allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects AWcode Toolkit: from n/a through <= 1.0.14.

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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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables remote exploitation of web application vulnerability with user interaction via crafted links.

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 information outputs in web pages to neutralize untrusted input, directly preventing reflected XSS execution in the victim's browser.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Validates all user inputs to the AWcode Toolkit plugin, addressing the improper neutralization that enables reflected XSS.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Remediates the specific flaw in AWcode Toolkit versions through 1.0.14 by applying patches or updates to eliminate the XSS vulnerability.

References