CVE-2025-23497
Published: 16 January 2025
Description
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in albdesign Simple Project Manager simple-project-managment allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Simple Project Manager: from n/a through <= 1.2.2.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23497 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the albdesign Simple Project Manager WordPress plugin (simple-project-managment) that allows Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The issue affects versions from n/a through 1.2.2. It 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 maps to CWE-352.
Unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) can exploit this over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L) by tricking authenticated users (UI:R) into performing actions via forged requests. Successful exploitation stores XSS payloads, enabling script execution in the context of other users with changed scope (S:C) and low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/simple-project-managment/vulnerability/wordpress-simple-project-manager-plugin-1-2-2-csrf-to-stored-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) documents the CSRF-to-Stored XSS vulnerability in Simple Project Manager plugin version 1.2.2.
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