CVE-2025-23879
Published: 03 March 2025
Description
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23879 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the PillarDev Easy Automatic Newsletter Lite WordPress plugin (easy-automatic-newsletter). This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 3.2.0.
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 it is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, but necessitating user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can leverage reflected XSS to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in a user's browser within the context of the vulnerable site, potentially leading to limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability due to the changed scope.
The Patchstack advisory provides further details on the vulnerability in the WordPress Easy Automatic Newsletter Lite plugin version 3.2.0 at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/easy-automatic-newsletter/vulnerability/wordpress-easy-automatic-newsletter-lite-plugin-3-2-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
- CWE(s)
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS enables crafting malicious links (T1204.001) that trigger arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser (T1059.007).