Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23811

High

Published: 22 January 2025

Published
22 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 0.0023 45.9th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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-2025-23811 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WP2APP plugin (wp2appir) developed by ghasemy14 for WordPress. This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through 2.6.2. The vulnerability was published on 2025-01-22 and 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).

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no required privileges, though it demands user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation results in a changed scope, enabling limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within the victim's browser context, potentially allowing theft of session data or execution of arbitrary scripts in the user's session.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp2appir/vulnerability/wordpress-wp2app-plugin-2-6-2-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the Reflected XSS vulnerability in WP2APP plugin version 2.6.2 and provides details on affected installations for mitigation purposes. Security practitioners should review this reference for patch availability and recommended remediation steps.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-79

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
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.
Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS requires user to click malicious link (T1204.001) to trigger arbitrary JavaScript execution (T1059.007) in browser context, enabling theft of session data (T1539).

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

References