CVE-2025-23759
Published: 31 January 2025
Description
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23759 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Affiliate Tools Việt Nam WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 0.3.17 inclusive, as published on 2025-01-31.
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). Any network-accessible attacker without privileges can exploit it by crafting malicious input that reflects back to users, requiring user interaction such as clicking a specially crafted link. Exploitation changes the security scope, enabling low-impact effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as executing scripts in the victim's browser context to steal session data or manipulate page content.
Patchstack provides details on this WordPress plugin vulnerability, including assessment and potential mitigation steps, accessible at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/affiliate-tools-viet-nam/vulnerability/wordpress-affiliate-tools-viet-nam-plugin-0-3-17-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
- CWE(s)
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation of the application (T1190) and facilitates stealing web session cookies via injected scripts (T1539).