Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23680

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 0.0026 49.7th 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-2025-23680 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Narnoo Operator WordPress plugin's narnoo-shortcodes component. This issue affects Narnoo Operator versions from n/a through 2.0.0 inclusive. The vulnerability was published on 2025-03-26 and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), such as clicking a malicious link. The changed scope (S:C) enables limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), typically allowing execution of arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser session on an affected site.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/narnoo-shortcodes/vulnerability/wordpress-narnoo-operator-plugin-2-0-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the Reflected XSS vulnerability in the Narnoo Operator WordPress plugin version 2.0.0.

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 public-facing applications (T1190) and requires user execution via malicious link (T1204.001) for arbitrary script execution in browser context.

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

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