Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23879

High

Published: 03 March 2025

Published
03 March 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 0.0035 57.2th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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)
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.
Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS enables crafting malicious links (T1204.001) that trigger arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser (T1059.007).

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

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