CVE-2025-23994
Published: 21 January 2025
Description
Adversaries may gain access to a system through a user visiting a website over the normal course of browsing.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23994, published on 2025-01-21, is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) as classified under CWE-79. It affects the Estatebud – Properties & Listings WordPress plugin (estatebud-properties-listings) in all versions up to and including 5.5.0.
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 network-accessible exploitation with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction needed. Unauthenticated attackers can leverage a CSRF-to-Stored XSS vector to inject and store malicious scripts, which execute in the context of other users viewing affected pages, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability under a changed scope.
The Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/estatebud-properties-listings/vulnerability/wordpress-estatebud-properties-listings-plugin-5-5-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) documents the CSRF-to-Stored XSS issue in Estatebud – Properties & Listings version 5.5.0 and earlier, providing vulnerability details for mitigation.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) and facilitates drive-by compromise by injecting executable scripts into pages viewed by users (T1189).