Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23737

High

Published: 24 January 2025

Published
24 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 0.0019 40.2th 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-2025-23737 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the thobian Network-Favorites WordPress plugin. This flaw affects Network-Favorites versions from n/a through 1.1.

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 required privileges, but necessitating user interaction. Remote attackers can leverage reflected XSS by tricking users into interacting with malicious input, such as via crafted links or payloads reflected in web page generation, potentially leading to low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope.

The Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/network-favorites/vulnerability/wordpress-network-favorites-plugin-1-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) details this Reflected XSS issue in the WordPress Network-Favorites plugin version 1.1.

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 directly enables exploitation of web application vulnerabilities (T1190) and user execution via crafted malicious links (T1204.001).

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

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