CVE-2025-32515
Published: 17 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-32515 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 CVE-2025-32515 is a reflected cross-site scripting issue arising from improper neutralization of input during web page generation. It affects the Terminal Africa WordPress plugin in versions through 1.13.24 and is tracked under CWE-79 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.1.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can supply a crafted request that is reflected back to a victim user who follows a malicious link, allowing script execution in the browser context with limited effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory documents the reflected XSS flaw in the plugin and identifies the affected versions.
The associated EPSS score remains low, with a current value of 0.0067 and a peak of 0.0111.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-11658
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in terminalafrica Terminal Africa terminal-africa allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Terminal Africa: from n/a through <= 1.13.24.
- 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.