Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-32637

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-2025-32637 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-2025-32637 is a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability arising from improper neutralization of input during web page generation. It affects the WP Donate plugin (wp-donate) for WordPress, developed by ketanajani, in all versions through 2.0.

An unauthenticated remote attacker can supply crafted input that is stored and later rendered for other visitors. Successful exploitation yields limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability within the affected site's security context, requiring user interaction to trigger the payload.

The issue is tracked in the Patchstack vulnerability database, where the advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-donate/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-donate-plugin-2-0-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability provides further details for practitioners. The associated EPSS score remains low, with a current value of 0.0067 and a recorded peak of 0.0111.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in ketanajani WP Donate wp-donate allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP Donate: from n/a through <= 2.0.

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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