VulnerabilityPublished 15 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-65835: cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing · CVE-2025-65835 is a medium severity

Affects cordova-plugin-x-socialsharingSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.2 Medium.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 13:47 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

6.2Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 20% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector: Local
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Local: The vulnerable component is not bound to the network stack and the attacker’s path is via read/write/execute capabilities. Either: the attacker exploits the vulnerability by accessing the target system locally (e.g., keyboard, console), or remotely (e.g., SSH); or the attacker relies on User Interaction by another person to perform actions required to exploit the vulnerability (e.g., tricking a legitimate user into opening a malicious document).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 15 Dec 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
npmcordova-plugin-x-socialsharing`pkg:npm/cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing`Other threats	Affected =6.0.4	Fixed in–

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AI-suggested

To mitigate CVE-2025-65835, organizations should: 1) Update the cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing plugin to a patched version once available that properly validates the presence of Intent.EXTRA_CHOSEN_COMPONENT before dereferencing it. 3) Restrict the exported broadcast receiver by setting android:exported="false" or applying permission checks to prevent unauthorized apps from sending crafted broadcasts. 4) Employ mobile application management (MAM) solutions to control which apps can be installed and restrict potentially malicious local apps. 5) Educate users about the risks of installing untrusted apps that could exploit local broadcast receivers. 6) Monitor app crash logs and device behavior for signs of repeated crashes that may indicate exploitation attempts. 7) For developers, follow secure coding practices to validate all intent extras and avoid null pointer dereferences. 8) Consider implementing runtime application self-protection (RASP) to detect and mitigate abnormal intent handling. These steps go beyond generic advice by focusing on broadcast receiver exposure and local app controls specific to this vulnerability.

Description

CVE-2025-65835 is a medium severity vulnerability in the Cordova plugin cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing version 6.0.4 for Android. The plugin registers an exported broadcast receiver that listens for android.intent.action. SEND intents but fails to validate the presence of the EXTRA_CHOSEN_COMPONENT extra, leading to a NullPointerException and application crash. Because the receiver is exported and lacks permission checks, any local app on the device can send crafted broadcasts to trigger repeated crashes, causing a denial of service at the application level. This vulnerability does not impact confidentiality or integrity but affects availability by crashing the host app. Exploitation requires local access to the device but no special privileges or user interaction.

Impact

For European organizations, the primary impact of CVE-2025-65835 is a local denial of service affecting Android applications that include the vulnerable cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing plugin. This can lead to repeated crashes of critical mobile applications, disrupting business processes, customer interactions, and internal workflows that depend on these apps. While the vulnerability does not compromise confidentiality or integrity, the loss of availability can cause operational delays, reputational damage, and increased support costs. Sectors with high reliance on mobile apps, such as finance, retail, healthcare, and public services, may experience significant disruption. Additionally, organizations with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies may face increased risk as local apps on user devices could be exploited to crash corporate apps. The requirement for local access limits remote exploitation but insider threats or malicious apps installed on devices could trigger the vulnerability. The absence of user interaction requirement means the attack can be automated once local access is obtained.

CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: MediumCWE Top 25 (2025): #13OWASP Top 10 A10:2025: Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions (opens in a new tab)
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Implementation
For any pointers that could have been modified or provided from a function that can return NULL, check the pointer for NULL before use. When working with a multithreaded or otherwise asynchronous environment, ensure that proper locking APIs are used to lock before the check, and unlock when it has finished.
Requirements
Select a programming language that is not susceptible to these issues.
Implementation
Check the results of all functions that return a value and verify that the value is non-null before acting upon it.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Logging (opens in a new tab)
Error Handling (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V11.1.7 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 22 Dec 2025, 19:28 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-476

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