Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-32543

High

Published: 09 April 2025

Published
09 April 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 0.0111 78.5th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-32543 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 21.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-32543 is a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability arising from improper neutralization of input during web page generation. It affects the Canonical Attachments plugin for WordPress by hivedigital, impacting all versions through 1.8 and carrying a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.1 along with CWE-79 classification.

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the flaw by supplying crafted input that is reflected back to a victim user, enabling execution of arbitrary script code within the site context and resulting in limited effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The issue is tracked in the Patchstack database, which serves as the primary advisory reference for this reflected XSS exposure. The associated EPSS score remains flat at 0.0111 with no material increase observed after disclosure.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in hivedigital Canonical Attachments canonical-attachments allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Canonical Attachments: from n/a through <= 1.8.

CWE(s)
CWE-79

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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