Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-25124

High

Published: 03 March 2025

Published
03 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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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 0.0011 29.2th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

An adversary may deface systems external to an organization in an attempt to deliver messaging, intimidate, or otherwise mislead an organization or users.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-25124 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the devu Status Updater fb-status-updater WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.9.2.

The vulnerability has 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 exploitation over the network with low attack complexity, no privileges required, but user interaction needed. An unauthenticated attacker can craft a malicious request that reflects input without neutralization, tricking a victim user—such as a site administrator or logged-in user—into accessing it via a phishing link or similar vector. This executes arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser within the site's context, enabling limited impacts like session hijacking, data theft, or site defacement.

Patchstack provides details on this vulnerability, including mitigation guidance, at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/fb-status-updater/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-spell-check-plugin-9-21-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability-3?_s_id=cve.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-79

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1566.002 Spearphishing Link Initial Access
Adversaries may send spearphishing emails with a malicious link in an attempt to gain access to victim systems.
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T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection
Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.
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T1491.002 External Defacement Impact
An adversary may deface systems external to an organization in an attempt to deliver messaging, intimidate, or otherwise mislead an organization or users.
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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS enables arbitrary JS execution in victim's browser via phishing link (T1566.002), directly facilitating browser session hijacking (T1185) and external site defacement (T1491.002).

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

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