CVE-2025-24563
Published: 31 January 2025
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
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mitigates reflected XSS by filtering malicious scripts from user inputs reflected in web page generation.
Validates untrusted inputs to the WordPress plugin, preventing injection of XSS payloads during web page generation.
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
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.
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.
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