CVE-2025-28899
Published: 26 March 2025
Description
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.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-28899 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as CWE-79, enabling Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in the WP Event Ticketing plugin (wpeventticketing) developed by toddhuish for WordPress. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.3.4, as published on 2025-03-26.
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 it is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can deliver payloads via reflected inputs, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope, typically allowing execution of arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser context.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wpeventticketing/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-event-ticketing-plugin-1-3-4-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
- CWE(s)
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser when a malicious link is clicked, directly facilitating user execution via malicious links and browser session hijacking.