Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23600

High

Published: 03 March 2025

Published
03 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 0.0023 45.9th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-23600 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Send to a Friend Addon plugin (send-booking-invites-to-friends) developed by pinal.shah for WordPress. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 1.4.1. The vulnerability was published on 2025-03-03.

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 privileges required, and user interaction needed, with a changed scope leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with maliciously crafted links or inputs reflected in the web page, enabling script execution in the victim's browser context.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/send-booking-invites-to-friends/vulnerability/wordpress-send-to-a-friend-addon-plugin-1-4-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

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.
T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Why these techniques?

The reflected XSS vulnerability in the public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190), requires user interaction with maliciously crafted links (T1204.001), and facilitates arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser context (T1059.007).

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

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