CVE-2025-23883
Published: 03 March 2025
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-2025-23883 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the Stray Random Quotes (stray-quotes) WordPress plugin developed by unalignedcoder. The issue impacts all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 1.9.9. Published on 2025-03-03, it 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 high severity due to network accessibility and scope change.
An unauthenticated attacker (PR:N) can exploit this vulnerability remotely (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L) by tricking a victim—such as a site visitor or administrator—into performing an action like clicking a malicious link (UI:R). Successful exploitation triggers reflected XSS, executing arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context with changed scope (S:C), enabling low-level impacts on confidentiality (C:L), integrity (I:L), and availability (A:L), such as session hijacking, data theft, or page manipulation.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/stray-quotes/vulnerability/wordpress-stray-random-quotes-plugin-1-9-9-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS enables arbitrary script execution in victim's browser, directly facilitating browser session hijacking (T1185) and stealing web session cookies (T1539) for impacts like session takeover and data theft.