CVE-2025-27338
Published: 17 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-27338 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 28.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The vulnerability is a reflected cross-site scripting flaw (CWE-79) caused by improper neutralization of input during web page generation. It affects the WordPress List Urls plugin by graphems, in all versions through 0.2.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the issue by crafting a malicious link and enticing a victim to click it, resulting in script execution in the victim's browser under the affected site's origin. The CVSS 7.1 vector indicates network attack reachability, low complexity, no required privileges, required user interaction, and changed scope with limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The sole reference points to a Patchstack advisory entry that catalogs the reflected XSS issue in the plugin but supplies no further mitigation details in the provided data. The associated EPSS scores remain low with only a modest increase between current and peak values.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-11640
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in graphems List Urls list-urls allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects List Urls: from n/a through <= 0.2.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.