CVE-2025-26555
Published: 15 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-2025-26555 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Debug-Bar-Extender WordPress plugin developed by Thorsten Ott. The issue affects all versions of Debug-Bar-Extender from n/a through 0.5 inclusive, allowing malicious input to be reflected in web page generation without proper neutralization.
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 network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can exploit it to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/debug-bar-extender/vulnerability/wordpress-debug-bar-extender-plugin-0-5-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, which covers the WordPress Debug-Bar-Extender plugin 0.5 reflected XSS vulnerability.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The reflected XSS vulnerability in the public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of a web application weakness to execute arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser.