CVE-2025-23748
Published: 14 February 2025
Description
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23748 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the Singsys Awesome Gallery WordPress plugin (awesome-gallery-singsys). The issue impacts all versions from n/a through 1.0 and was published on 2025-02-14.
The vulnerability has 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 exploitation over the network by an unauthenticated attacker with low complexity, requiring user interaction. An attacker can craft a malicious input that reflects back in the web page generation process, executing arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context upon interaction, such as clicking a phishing link, potentially leading to limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability due to the changed scope.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/awesome-gallery-singsys/vulnerability/wordpress-singsys-awesome-gallery-plugin-1-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browser (T1059.007).