Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23834

High

Published: 23 January 2025

Published
23 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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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-2025-23834 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WordPress plugin Links/Problem Reporter (report-broken-links) by RaminMT. The issue affects all versions from n/a through 2.6.0.

With 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), the vulnerability is exploitable over the network by unauthenticated attackers with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation enables limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a changed scope, allowing attackers to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser.

The Patchstack advisory documents this Reflected XSS vulnerability in the WordPress Links/Problem Reporter plugin up to version 2.6.0.

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.
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T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application) via crafted URLs; requires user interaction with malicious link, mapping to T1204.001 (Malicious Link).

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

References