CVE-2025-24688
Published: 14 February 2025
Description
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-24688 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as CWE-79, enabling Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in the WP Mailster WordPress plugin (wp-mailster) developed by brandtoss. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.8.20.0, as published on 2025-02-14.
The vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers with network access, requiring low attack complexity, no privileges, and user interaction such as visiting a malicious link. Exploitation reflects attacker-controlled input into web pages, allowing arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser context with a changed scope. This results in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, yielding a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (High).
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-mailster/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-mailster-plugin-1-8-20-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
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Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications via malicious links.