CVE-2025-24781

High

Published: 03 February 2025

Published

03 February 2025

Modified

28 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 0.0005 16.1th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-24781 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 16.1th 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-2025-24781 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WPJobBoard WordPress plugin. This issue affects WPJobBoard versions from n/a through 5.10.1.

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 to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in a user's browser within the context of the vulnerable site, potentially leading to limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as session hijacking or data theft from authenticated users.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/wpjobboard/vulnerability/wordpress-wpjobboard-plugin-5-10-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this Reflected XSS vulnerability in WPJobBoard 5.10.1 and outlines mitigation recommendations for affected WordPress installations.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3944

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in NotFound WPJobBoard allows Reflected XSS. This issue affects WPJobBoard: from n/a through 5.10.1.

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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T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access

An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.

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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web application (T1190) and facilitates script execution to steal web session cookies for hijacking or data theft (T1539).

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