CVE-2025-26541
Published: 26 March 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-2025-26541 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the CodeSolz Bitcoin / AltCoin Payment Gateway for WooCommerce plugin (woo-altcoin-payment-gateway). This issue impacts all versions from n/a through 1.7.6 and was published on 2025-03-26 with 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).
An unauthenticated attacker with network access can exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious payload that reflects off the web page, requiring user interaction such as clicking a specially crafted link. Exploitation changes the scope (S:C), enabling the payload to execute in the context of the targeted user's browser session, with low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L). Potential outcomes include theft of session cookies, keystroke logging, or phishing attacks against site administrators or users.
The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this vulnerability, including vulnerability assessment for the WordPress plugin: https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/woo-altcoin-payment-gateway/vulnerability/wordpress-bitcoin-altcoin-payment-gateway-for-woocommerce-plugin-1-7-6-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
- CWE(s)
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS allows arbitrary JS execution in victim's browser context, directly enabling keylogging (T1056.001), browser session hijacking (T1185), and theft of web session cookies (T1539) as described in the potential outcomes.