CVE-2025-24781
Published: 03 February 2025
Description
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-24781 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WPJobBoard WordPress plugin. This issue affects WPJobBoard versions from n/a through 5.10.1.
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 such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in a user's browser within the context of the vulnerable site, potentially leading to limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as session hijacking or data theft from authenticated users.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/wpjobboard/vulnerability/wordpress-wpjobboard-plugin-5-10-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this Reflected XSS vulnerability in WPJobBoard 5.10.1 and outlines mitigation recommendations for affected WordPress installations.
Details
- CWE(s)
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web application (T1190) and facilitates script execution to steal web session cookies for hijacking or data theft (T1539).