CVE-2025-25124
Published: 03 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-25124 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 Spearphishing Link (T1566.002); ranked at the 29.2th 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).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mitigates reflected XSS by filtering malicious input reflected in web page generation to prevent JavaScript execution.
Validates and neutralizes untrusted user input before processing, addressing the improper neutralization root cause of this CVE.
Requires timely identification, patching, and verification of the specific XSS flaw in the fb-status-updater plugin.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS enables arbitrary JS execution in victim's browser via phishing link (T1566.002), directly facilitating browser session hijacking (T1185) and external site defacement (T1491.002).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in devu Status Updater fb-status-updater allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Status Updater: from n/a through <= 1.9.2.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-25124 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the devu Status Updater fb-status-updater WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.9.2.
The vulnerability has 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 exploitation over the network with low attack complexity, no privileges required, but user interaction needed. An unauthenticated attacker can craft a malicious request that reflects input without neutralization, tricking a victim user—such as a site administrator or logged-in user—into accessing it via a phishing link or similar vector. This executes arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser within the site's context, enabling limited impacts like session hijacking, data theft, or site defacement.
Patchstack provides details on this vulnerability, including mitigation guidance, at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/fb-status-updater/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-spell-check-plugin-9-21-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability-3?_s_id=cve.
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