CVE-2025-24631
Published: 03 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-24631 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 17.7th 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-2025-24631 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the BP Email Assign Templates WordPress plugin by shanebp (bp-email-assign-templates). This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.5 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 reflected malicious input on affected sites, achieving limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/bp-email-assign-templates/vulnerability/wordpress-bp-email-assign-templates-plugin-1-5-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details this Reflected XSS vulnerability in BP Email Assign Templates version 1.5. Security practitioners should review the advisory for vulnerability specifics and recommended mitigations.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3832
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in shanebp BP Email Assign Templates bp-email-assign-templates allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects BP Email Assign Templates: from n/a through <= 1.5.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 exploitation; attack requires tricking users via malicious links (T1204.001).
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Mitigating Controls
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Requires validation of user inputs to prevent improper neutralization leading to reflected XSS injection in the WordPress plugin.
Mandates filtering of information outputs to neutralize malicious scripts reflected in web page generation.
Directly addresses remediation of the specific flaw in BP Email Assign Templates plugin versions through <=1.5 by identifying and correcting the XSS vulnerability.