CVE-2025-23464

CVE-2025-23464 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Twitter News Feed WordPress plugin (twitter-news-feed) developed by Keir Whitaker. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 1.1.1. Published on 2025-03-03, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L), reflecting network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, user interaction dependency, changed scope, and low impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by crafting malicious input that is reflected back in the web page without proper neutralization, tricking a user into accessing a malicious URL via social engineering, such as a phishing link. Successful exploitation executes arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser context, potentially enabling session hijacking, data theft, or further site compromise within the scope changed by the cross-origin effects.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/twitter-news-feed/vulnerability/wordpress-twitter-news-feed-plugin-1-1-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the Reflected XSS in Twitter News Feed plugin version 1.1.1, providing details for WordPress administrators to assess and address the risk.