CVE-2025-23714
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-23714, was discovered in the AppReview WordPress plugin versions up to 0.2.9. The vulnerability was disclosed on March 26, 2025, and involves improper neutralization of input during web page generation (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). It received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.1 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. This scoring indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability can lead to compromised confidentiality, integrity, and availability, all rated as Low according to the CVSS scoring. As a reflected XSS vulnerability, it could potentially allow attackers to execute malicious scripts in users' browsers when they visit specially crafted URLs (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update their AppReview WordPress plugin to a version newer than 0.2.9 when available. As this is a recently disclosed vulnerability, specific patch information may still be pending (NVD).

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