CVE-2025-23600
Published: 03 March 2025
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
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
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).