CVE-2025-23828
Published: 16 January 2025
Description
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23828 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the sindhi WordPress Data Guard plugin (wordpress-data-guards). This issue affects WordPress Data Guard versions from n/a through 8, as published on 2025-01-16.
The vulnerability 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), indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit it remotely by tricking users into actions that store malicious scripts on the site, such as through CSRF leading to Stored XSS, potentially resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope.
Patchstack advisories detail this as a CSRF-to-Stored XSS vulnerability in the WordPress Data Guard website security plugin version 8.
Details
- CWE(s)
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability is in a public-facing WordPress plugin allowing remote unauthenticated exploitation to inject persistent scripts, directly mapping to T1190. The Stored XSS nature enables injection and execution of arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser, mapping to T1059.007.