Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-24563

High

Published: 31 January 2025

Published
31 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 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 38.9th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-24563 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 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

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Malicious Link (T1204.001) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.
Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

prevent

Directly mitigates reflected XSS by filtering malicious scripts from user inputs reflected in web page generation.

prevent

Validates untrusted inputs to the WordPress plugin, preventing injection of XSS payloads during web page generation.

prevent

Remediates the specific flaw in the Cleanup plugin by identifying, reporting, and applying patches up to version 1.0.4.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
T1566.002 Spearphishing Link Initial Access
Adversaries may send spearphishing emails with a malicious link in an attempt to gain access to victim systems.
Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS enables exploitation via crafted malicious links sent to victims, directly facilitating spearphishing links and user execution of malicious links to trigger script injection in the browser.

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

NVD Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in themeglow Cleanup – Directory Listing & Classifieds WordPress Plugin cleanup-light allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Cleanup – Directory Listing & Classifieds WordPress Plugin: from n/a through <= 1.0.4.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-24563 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the themeglow Cleanup – Directory Listing & Classifieds WordPress Plugin (cleanup-light). This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions (n/a) through version 1.0.4.

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 visiting a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context due to the changed scope, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/cleanup-light/vulnerability/wordpress-cleanup-directory-listing-classifieds-plugin-1-0-4-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

Details

CWE(s)

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