Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23506

High

Published: 22 January 2025

Published
22 January 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 0.0030 53.2th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in imsoftware WP IMAP Auth wp-imap-authentication allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WP IMAP Auth: from n/a through <= 4.0.1.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-23506 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WP IMAP Auth plugin (wp-imap-authentication) developed by imsoftware. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 4.0.1 and was published on 2025-01-22.

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 it is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, no privileges required, but user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can leverage reflected XSS to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in a victim's browser context, potentially achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-imap-authentication/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-imap-auth-plugin-4-0-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-79

References