CVE-2025-26553
Published: 15 March 2025
Description
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-26553 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the Pre Order Addon for WooCommerce – Advance Order/Backorder Plugin (wc-pre-order). This issue impacts all versions from n/a through 2.2, as hosted on WordPress sites using the plugin.
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 exploitation is possible over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction such as visiting a malicious link. Attackers can leverage reflected XSS to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in a victim's browser context, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wc-pre-order/vulnerability/wordpress-pre-order-addon-for-woocommerce-plugin-1-0-7-reflected-cross-site-scripting?_s_id=cve.
Details
- CWE(s)
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables T1190 (exploit public-facing app) and T1059.007 (arbitrary JavaScript execution in browser via injected scripts).