CVE-2025-24560
Published: 31 January 2025
Description
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-24560 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the Awesome Event Booking WordPress plugin by AwesomeTOGI (awesome-event-booking). The issue impacts all versions from n/a through 2.7.1, as published on 2025-01-31.
The vulnerability carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L), indicating exploitation is possible remotely over the network by an unauthenticated attacker with low complexity, though it requires user interaction. An attacker can craft a malicious input that reflects unsanitized on a web page, executing scripts in the victim's browser context and potentially achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope.
Patchstack provides details on the vulnerability via its advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/awesome-event-booking/vulnerability/wordpress-awesome-event-booking-plugin-2-7-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, covering the Reflected XSS in Awesome Event Booking plugin version 2.7.1.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS allows injection and execution of arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser (T1059.007) when the user interacts with a crafted malicious link (T1204.001).