CVE-2025-23809
Published: 22 January 2025
Description
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23809 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Blue Wrench Video Widget (blue-wrench-videos-widget) WordPress plugin by Sunil Nanda. The issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 2.1.0, allowing malicious input to be reflected without proper sanitization during web page generation.
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 required privileges, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it by crafting payloads delivered via reflected inputs, executing arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser on affected sites, with changed scope and low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory provides further details on the vulnerability at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/blue-wrench-videos-widget/vulnerability/wordpress-blue-wrench-video-widget-plugin-2-1-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, including potential mitigation through plugin updates beyond version 2.1.0 where available.
Details
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Why these techniques?
The reflected XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web application by crafting malicious reflected inputs to execute arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser.