Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-25118

High

Published: 03 March 2025

Published
03 March 2025
Modified
23 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 0.0023 46.2th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-25118 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 46.2th 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-2025-25118 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS, CWE-79), in the WordPress plugin Top Bar – PopUps – by WPOptin (wpoptin) developed by Danish Ali Malik. The issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through 2.0.8 inclusive. Published on 2025-03-03, 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, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability with low attack complexity by crafting a malicious input that is reflected in a web page response, requiring user interaction such as clicking a specially crafted link. Successful exploitation executes arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context, potentially leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with scope changed to enable cross-origin effects.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wpoptin/vulnerability/wordpress-easy-wp-tiles-plugin-1-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-7?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Danish Ali Malik Top Bar – PopUps – by WPOptin wpoptin allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Top Bar – PopUps – by WPOptin: from n/a through <= 2.0.8.

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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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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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation via crafted malicious links (T1204.001) to execute arbitrary JavaScript in browser (T1059.007) after exploiting the web app vuln (T1190).

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

SI-15 requires filtering information outputs to neutralize malicious scripts reflected in web page generation, directly preventing reflected XSS exploitation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

SI-10 mandates validation of inputs to block malicious payloads from being accepted and reflected unsafely in web responses.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

SI-2 ensures timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws like this XSS vulnerability in the WordPress plugin.

References