Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-32578

High

Published: 17 April 2025

Published
17 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 0.0067 71.8th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-32578 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 is a reflected cross-site scripting flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-32578, that stems from improper neutralization of user input during web page generation. It affects the Coming Soon Countdown WordPress plugin by Mapro Collins in all versions up to and including 2.2.

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the issue by supplying a crafted URL that is visited by a victim user. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to execute arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context, resulting in limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability as reflected in the CVSS 7.1 score.

The primary public reference is the Patchstack advisory, which documents the reflected XSS issue and points to an available update that addresses the input handling weakness in the plugin. The EPSS score remains low, with a current value of 0.0067 and a modest peak of 0.0111.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Mapro Collins Coming Soon Countdown coming-soon-countdown allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Coming Soon Countdown: from n/a through <= 2.2.

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.

References