CVE-2025-24686

High

Published: 31 January 2025

Published

31 January 2025

Modified

23 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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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 0.0020 42.1th percentile

Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-24686 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Metagauss Registrationmagic. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Browser Session Hijacking (T1185); ranked at the 42.1th 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).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Browser Session Hijacking (T1185) 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

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match

prevent

Directly mitigates reflected XSS by requiring output filtering and encoding prior to web page generation to neutralize malicious scripts.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Prevents injection of malicious payloads by validating and sanitizing user inputs at web application entry points.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Addresses the specific flaw in the RegistrationMagic plugin by requiring timely remediation through patching vulnerable versions.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection

Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.

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T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution

An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.

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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS enables arbitrary JS execution in browser context for session cookie theft and hijacking (T1185); exploitation requires user interaction with malicious crafted URL (T1204.001).

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

NVD Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Metagauss RegistrationMagic custom-registration-form-builder-with-submission-manager allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects RegistrationMagic: from n/a through <= 6.0.3.3.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-24686 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Metagauss RegistrationMagic plugin (custom-registration-form-builder-with-submission-manager) for WordPress. This issue affects versions from n/a through 6.0.3.3. Published on 2025-01-31, it 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).

A remote attacker with no required privileges can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity, provided a user interacts by visiting a maliciously crafted URL on an affected site. Successful exploitation changes scope and enables low-impact effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as executing arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser to steal session cookies or perform other client-side actions within the site's context.

Mitigation details are available in advisories like the Patchstack database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/custom-registration-form-builder-with-submission-manager/vulnerability/wordpress-registrationmagic-plugin-6-0-3-3-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.