Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-26585

High

Published: 03 March 2025

Published
03 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
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 0.0023 45.9th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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-2025-26585 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the DyadyaLesha DL Leadback WordPress plugin (dl-leadback). It affects all versions from n/a through 1.2.1 inclusive. Published on 2025-03-03T14:15:55.470, the issue 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).

The vulnerability enables exploitation over the network with low complexity, requiring no privileges but user interaction. An attacker can deliver malicious payloads via reflected inputs, such as crafted URLs or form submissions, tricking authenticated users into executing scripts in their browser context when accessing affected pages. Successful exploitation yields low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a changed scope allowing potential effects beyond the vulnerable component.

The primary advisory reference from Patchstack (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/dl-leadback/vulnerability/wordpress-dl-leadback-plugin-1-2-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) documents the Reflected XSS in DL Leadback version 1.2.1 for WordPress, providing vulnerability details for affected plugin instances.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-79

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

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.
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
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.
Why these techniques?

The reflected XSS vulnerability allows injection and execution of arbitrary scripts in authenticated users' browsers via crafted URLs, directly enabling browser session hijacking (T1185) and stealing web session cookies (T1539).

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

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