Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23466

High

Published: 26 March 2025

Published
26 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0012 29.9th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-23466 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) as classified under CWE-79. It affects the Site Editor Google Map WordPress plugin (site-editor-google-map) developed by wpsiteeditor, impacting all versions from n/a through 1.0.1.

The vulnerability 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), indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, but necessitating user interaction. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with malicious input, such as via a crafted link or payload reflected in web page generation. Exploitation achieves low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope, typically allowing execution of arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/site-editor-google-map/vulnerability/wordpress-site-editor-google-map-plugin-1-0-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the issue and provides guidance on mitigation for the Site Editor Google Map plugin.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-79

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation of web app via crafted malicious links requiring user interaction.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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