CVE-2025-32561
Published: 17 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-32561 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-2025-32561 is an improper neutralization of input during web page generation, specifically a reflected cross-site scripting flaw (CWE-79), affecting the WP_DEBUG Toggle plugin for WordPress in all versions through 1.1. It carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.1 with a network attack vector, low complexity, no required privileges, and required user interaction, resulting in limited effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability under a changed scope.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the flaw by supplying crafted input via a malicious link or request that is reflected back to a victim user, allowing execution of arbitrary scripts within the user's browser session and the plugin's context.
The issue is tracked in the Patchstack vulnerability database, which identifies the reflected XSS exposure in the enable-wp-debug-toggle plugin and serves as the primary advisory reference for affected installations. 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-2025-11682
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in plugins.club WP_DEBUG Toggle enable-wp-debug-toggle allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WP_DEBUG Toggle: from n/a through <= 1.1.
- 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.