CVE-2025-25132
Published: 03 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-25132 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 Drive-by Compromise (T1189); 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-2025-25132 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the WordPress plugin Visitor Details developed by Ravi Singh. The issue impacts versions from an unspecified initial release through 1.0.1. Published on 2025-03-03T14:15:52.917, 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).
The vulnerability enables attackers to inject and store malicious scripts via input fields processed by the plugin, which then execute in the context of users viewing affected visitor details pages. Exploitation requires no privileges (PR:N) and is network-accessible with low complexity (AV:N/AC:L), though it depends on user interaction (UI:R). Successful attacks achieve low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a changed scope (S:C).
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/visitors-details/vulnerability/wordpress-visitor-details-plugin-1-0-1-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-5647
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in ravi Singh Visitor Details visitors-details allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Visitor Details: from n/a through <= 1.0.1.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Stored XSS allows injection of malicious JavaScript via unsanitized input fields that executes in the browser of users viewing the visitor details page, directly enabling drive-by compromise through the compromised web page and use of JavaScript for malicious scripting.
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Mitigating Controls
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Directly mitigates stored XSS by filtering and encoding information prior to output on web pages to neutralize malicious scripts.
Enforces validation of user inputs to the Visitor Details plugin, preventing injection of malicious scripts into stored visitor data.
Requires timely remediation of the identified flaw in Visitor Details versions through 1.0.1, such as applying patches from advisories to eliminate the XSS vulnerability.