CVE-2025-23894
Published: 23 January 2025
Description
Adversaries may send spearphishing emails with a malicious link in an attempt to gain access to victim systems.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23894 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) as classified under CWE-79. It affects the wp-flickr-press WordPress plugin by tatsuya, with all versions from n/a through 2.6.4 vulnerable. The issue was published on 2025-01-23 and 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).
Unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) can exploit this over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), though it requires user interaction (UI:R), such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation changes scope (S:C), allowing script execution in the victim's browser, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality (C:L), integrity (I:L), and availability (A:L).
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-flickr-press/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-flickr-press-plugin-2-6-4-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides further details on this vulnerability in the wp-flickr-press plugin version 2.6.4.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications via crafted URLs and facilitates delivery through malicious links requiring user interaction.