CVE-2025-24710
Published: 31 January 2025
Description
Adversaries may send spearphishing emails with a malicious link in an attempt to gain access to victim systems.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-24710 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 Gwolle Guestbook WordPress plugin (gwolle-gb) developed by Marcel Pol, impacting all versions from n/a through 4.7.1 inclusive. The issue was published on 2025-01-31.
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 accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction dependency, with a changed scope leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated users into interacting with malicious input, such as a crafted link or form submission, resulting in reflected script execution in the victim's browser context.
Patchstack's advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/gwolle-gb/vulnerability/wordpress-gwolle-guestbook-plugin-4-7-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the Reflected XSS flaw in Gwolle Guestbook version 4.7.1. Security practitioners should review this reference for detailed mitigation guidance.
Details
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Why these techniques?
The reflected XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation via crafted malicious links sent to users, directly mapping to exploitation of public-facing applications and spearphishing links for script execution in the browser.