CVE-2025-23542
Published: 26 March 2025
Description
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23542 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the RDP Linkedin Login WordPress plugin by Robert D Payne. The issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through 1.7.0 inclusive.
With 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), the vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network by any unauthenticated attacker with low attack complexity, provided they can lure a user into performing an action such as clicking a malicious link. Successful exploitation enables script injection and execution in the context of the victim's browser, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, along with a change in scope.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/rdp-linkedin-login/vulnerability/wordpress-rdp-linkedin-login-plugin-1-7-0-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details this XSS vulnerability in the RDP Linkedin Login WordPress plugin version 1.7.0.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The reflected XSS vulnerability is exploited by crafting a malicious URL with injected script payload; the description explicitly states it requires luring an unauthenticated user to click the link for script execution in the browser context, directly enabling T1204.001 Malicious Link.