CVE-2025-32564
Published: 17 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-32564 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
CVE-2025-32564 is a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability arising from improper neutralization of input during web page generation. It affects the Stop Registration Spam WordPress plugin developed by tomroyal, in all versions through 1.24, and is tracked under CWE-79 with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.1.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can supply a crafted request that causes the application to reflect attacker-controlled script content back to a victim who follows a malicious link, resulting in execution of the script in the victim's browser context with changed scope and limited effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The single available advisory reference points to a Patchstack entry that catalogs the reflected XSS flaw in the named plugin versions but supplies no further mitigation details. The associated EPSS score remains low, moving only from 0.0067 to a peak of 0.0111.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-11684
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in tomroyal Stop Registration Spam allows Reflected XSS. This issue affects Stop Registration Spam: from n/a through 1.24.
- 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.