CVE-2025-26914
Published: 03 March 2025
Description
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-26914 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the Bowo Variable Inspector WordPress plugin (variable-inspector). This issue impacts all versions up to and including 2.6.2. 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) and was published on 2025-03-03T14:15:56.500.
The vulnerability can be exploited by any network-accessible attacker with low attack complexity and no privileges required, though it demands user interaction such as visiting a maliciously crafted link or page. Successful exploitation enables reflected XSS, allowing arbitrary script execution in the victim's browser context with a changed scope, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/variable-inspector/vulnerability/wordpress-variable-inspector-plugin-2-6-2-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
- CWE(s)
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 (exploit public-facing app), T1059.007 (arbitrary JavaScript execution in browser), and T1204.001 (malicious link delivery requiring user interaction).