Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23835

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

Adversaries may send spearphishing emails with a malicious link in an attempt to gain access to victim systems.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-23835 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the Legal + WordPress plugin (also referred to as legal-plus) developed by jmraya. This issue impacts all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.0 inclusive.

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 exploitation is possible over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, but necessitating user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Attackers can trick authenticated or unauthenticated users into executing arbitrary scripts in their browsers within the context of the vulnerable site, potentially leading to limited impacts on confidentiality (e.g., session hijacking), integrity, and availability with a changed scope.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/legal-plus/vulnerability/wordpress-legal-plugin-1-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this reflected XSS vulnerability in the Legal + WordPress plugin version 1.0 and provides details on affected installations.

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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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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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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T1566.002 Spearphishing Link Initial Access
Adversaries may send spearphishing emails with a malicious link in an attempt to gain access to victim systems.
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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation of web app (T1190), arbitrary JavaScript execution in browser (T1059.007), and delivery via malicious links (T1204.001) or spearphishing (T1566.002).

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

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