CVE-2025-25129
Published: 03 March 2025
Description
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-25129 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the NotFound Callback Request feature in the WordPress plugin Callback Request. This issue impacts all versions from n/a through 1.4, as published on 2025-03-03.
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 it is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, no privileges required, but necessitating user interaction. Remote attackers can craft malicious inputs that reflect back to victims via the NotFound Callback Request, potentially executing arbitrary scripts in the user's browser context due to the changed scope.
Advisories, including details from Patchstack at https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/callback-request/vulnerability/wordpress-callback-request-plugin-1-4-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, document the vulnerability in the Callback Request WordPress plugin version 1.4.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The reflected XSS vulnerability (CWE-79) in the public-facing WordPress Callback Request plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application to deliver and execute arbitrary client-side scripts via crafted malicious inputs/links.