CVE-2025-23573
Published: 16 January 2025
Description
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in sammyb WP Background Tile wp-background-tile allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP Background Tile: from n/a through <= 1.0.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23573 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Background Tile WordPress plugin (wp-background-tile by sammyb) that allows Stored XSS. This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through version 1.0 inclusive.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), and results in changed scope (S:C) with low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), yielding a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1. Attackers can trick authenticated WordPress users into submitting forged requests via a malicious site, enabling the storage of XSS payloads that execute in the context of the plugin.
The Patchstack advisory provides further details on the vulnerability, including mitigation guidance, at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-background-tile/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-background-tile-plugin-1-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
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