Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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ReconCraft URL with malicious archive parameter
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DeliveryDeliver link via phishing or social media
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Exploitfilters-scheda-didattica.php reflects unsanitized input
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InstallVictim clicks and page renders payload
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C2JavaScript executes in site origin
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ExecuteSession cookie/nonce theft or redirect
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ImpactAccount takeover or credential phishing
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires that the Design Scuole Italia theme (design-scuole-wordpress-theme 1.0 through 2.18.2) be installed and active on a WordPress site, that filters-scheda-didattica.php be reachable over HTTP(S), and that a victim follow an attacker-supplied URL containing a malicious archive parameter. No authentication or account on the target is needed (CVSS PR:N), but successful compromise depends entirely on victim interaction (UI:A) - the payload is reflected, not stored, so it never persists on the server and each victim must click individually. Limiting factors: the flaw cannot be triggered by direct request without a human click, it cannot modify server-side state, and its impact is confined to the victim's browsing session on that origin (CVSS 4.0 SA:N). Sites that have deactivated the theme, blocked the file via WAF, or that render this template only for authenticated editors see materially reduced exposure. |
| Impact | The supplied CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N) scores 5.1 - moderate - and is internally consistent: exploitation is remote and trivial to automate, requires no privileges, but needs victim interaction (UI:A) and yields only low confidentiality/integrity impact confined to the vulnerable system (SC/SI/SA:N). In CVSS 3.1 terms this maps to roughly 6.1 under S:C, which is the more conventional way to read XSS impact against WordPress admin sessions. No EPSS score, no KEV entry and no POC information were provided, so the real-world exploitation likelihood must be treated as unproven rather than low-risk-by-default: mass scanning for parameter reflection in WordPress themes is routine, and the Italian public-sector target set is small but high-visibility, which historically attracts both opportunistic and hacktivist attention. The absence of KEV listing despite a national CERT publication (ACN/ENISA) suggests coordinated disclosure rather than confirmed in-the-wild exploitation, but this is an inference, not a confirmed fact. Priority should be driven by whether the theme is actively serving public traffic rather than by the raw score. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a URL pointing at filters-scheda-didattica.php on a school site running the theme, embedding a script payload in the archive parameter, and distributes it via email, social media or a shortened link to staff, students or administrators. When the victim clicks, the page is generated with the payload inline and the JavaScript executes in the school site's origin, allowing theft of session cookies or nonces, silent authenticated actions, or redirection to a credential-harvesting clone. Because the vector is reflected and requires no authentication or special position, the attack is fully automatable apart from the human click. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 15, 2026
A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in the Italian government school WordPress theme "Design Scuole Italia" lets an unauthenticated attacker run arbitrary JavaScript in a victim's browser by luring them to a crafted URL whose archive parameter is echoed unsanitized by filters-scheda-didattica.php. All versions from 1.0 through 2.18.2 are reported affected by ENISA/EUVD. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV, but any site running the theme is exposed to session theft, credential phishing and drive-by redirects against visitors and logged-in administrators alike.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch was identified at time of analysis: the EUVD affected range stops at 2.18.2, which implies a fix may exist in a later release, but no fixed version is confirmed in the supplied references and the ACN advisory URL should be consulted before making upgrade decisions. Until a patched release is verified, apply compensating controls: update the theme to the latest available release from https://github.com/italia/design-scuole-wordpress-theme and diff filters-scheda-didattica.php against 2.18.2 to confirm the archive parameter is escaped (esc_attr/esc_html/ wp_kses) - trade-off is that an unfixed release will not remove the flaw; deploy a WAF rule that rejects requests to filters-scheda-didattica.php where the archive parameter contains angle brackets, quotes, or the substring 'script' - trade-off is possible false positives on legitimate search/filter queries; add a Content-Security-Policy header with script-src restricting inline and third-party script - trade-off is breakage of theme/plugin inline scripts and possible visual regressions; if the theme cannot be fixed or filtered, temporarily deactivate it and serve a static holding page - trade-off is loss of the school site's public functionality.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Affects 1 package in euvd
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is a PHP template/helper file (filters-scheda-didattica.php) shipped inside a WordPress theme distributed by Developers Italia for Italian schools. The vulnerability class is CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), specifically the reflected variant: a request parameter named archive is written into the generated HTML response without output encoding or contextual escaping, so browser-side script execution occurs in the security context of the vulnerable site's origin. Because WordPress themes execute as PHP within the CMS and share the site's cookies, CSRF nonces and admin session context, reflected XSS in a theme file effectively bypasses the same-origin trust boundary. The relevant CPE is cpe:2.3:a:developers_italia:design-scuole-wordpress-theme (version wildcard), and the platform stack is PHP + WordPress + Apache/nginx as typically deployed.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Reflected XSS needs only a victim click, so UI:R and PR:N; script runs in site origin, warranting scope change.
Primary rating from Vendor (ENISA).
CVSS VectorVendor: ENISA
DescriptionCVE.org
The "Design Scuole Italia" WordPress theme is affected by a Reflected XSS vulnerability in the filters-scheda-didattica.php file, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript in a victim's browser via a crafted URL containing a malicious archive parameter.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
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