Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23720

High

Published: 16 January 2025

Published
16 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0015 35.3th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-23720 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Web Push WordPress plugin developed by Marco Castelluccio, affecting all versions up to and including 1.4.0. The flaw enables Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks and 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). It is classified under CWE-352.

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network without requiring privileges by tricking authenticated users, such as administrators, into performing unintended actions via malicious webpages or links (user interaction required). Successful exploitation via CSRF results in the storage of XSS payloads, which can execute in the context of other users viewing affected content, achieving low confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with changed scope.

The Patchstack advisory documents this CSRF-to-Stored XSS issue in Web Push plugin version 1.4.0 and provides details on the vulnerability for mitigation guidance.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-352

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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Why these techniques?

CSRF vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of web applications (T1190) and facilitates stored XSS for JavaScript execution in victim browsers (T1059.007).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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