Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23800

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 0.0008 23.0th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-23800 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the OrangeBox WordPress plugin developed by nova706. The issue affects OrangeBox versions from n/a through 3.0.0 and was published on 2025-01-16.

Unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), though it requires user interaction (UI:R). Successful exploitation changes scope (S:C) and results in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), yielding a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1. The vulnerability enables CSRF attacks that lead to stored XSS.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/orangebox/vulnerability/wordpress-orangebox-plugin-3-0-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this CSRF-to-stored-XSS issue in OrangeBox version 3.0.0. Security practitioners should review the advisory for recommended mitigations and available patches.

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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Why these techniques?

CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications.

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

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