CVE-2025-26868
Published: 25 February 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-2025-26868 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Fast Flow fast-flow-dashboard WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions of Fast Flow from n/a through 1.2.16. The vulnerability was published on 2025-02-25 and 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).
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no required privileges, though it necessitates user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Upon successful exploitation, adversaries can inject and execute arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context due to the changed scope (S:C), potentially compromising low levels of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as session hijacking or data theft from the affected user.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/fast-flow-dashboard/vulnerability/wordpress-fast-flow-plugin-1-2-16-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS directly enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser (T1059.007) via client application exploitation (T1203) and facilitates session hijacking through cookie theft (T1539).