Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-25108

High

Published: 03 March 2025

Published
03 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0035 57.2th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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-2025-25108 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the shalomworld SW Plus (shalom-world-media-gallery) WordPress plugin. This issue affects SW Plus versions from n/a through 2.1 inclusive. The vulnerability was published on 2025-03-03.

The CVSS v3.1 base score is 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 by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into accessing crafted URLs, leading to execution of arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser context with changed scope, enabling limited impacts on confidentiality (e.g., session hijacking), integrity (e.g., page modification), and availability.

The Patchstack advisory provides details on this WordPress plugin vulnerability and mitigation guidance, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/shalom-world-media-gallery/vulnerability/wordpress-sw-plus-plugin-2-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-79

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1189 Drive-by Compromise Initial Access
Adversaries may gain access to a system through a user visiting a website over the normal course of browsing.
T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
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.
Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS enables attackers to craft malicious URLs that execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser when visited, directly facilitating drive-by compromise via website visit (T1189), user execution through malicious links (T1204.001), and stealing web session cookies for session hijacking as explicitly noted in the CVE impacts (T1539).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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