CVE-2025-32562
Published: 17 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-32562 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-2025-32562 is a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability (CWE-79) in the WP Easy Poll plugin (wp-easy-poll-afo) developed by aviplugins.com. It affects all versions through 2.2.9 and stems from improper neutralization of input during web page generation, allowing attacker-controlled scripts to be reflected back to users.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the flaw by crafting a malicious URL that a victim is tricked into clicking. Successful exploitation executes arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser within the context of the affected WordPress site, resulting in limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability as reflected in the CVSS 7.1 score.
The public advisory published by Patchstack on its vulnerability database provides further technical details and references for the reflected XSS issue in the WP Easy Poll plugin. The associated EPSS score remains low at 0.0111 with no material increase observed.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-11683
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in aviplugins.com WP Easy Poll wp-easy-poll-afo allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WP Easy Poll: from n/a through <= 2.2.9.
- 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.