CVE-2025-23861
Published: 16 January 2025
Description
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23861 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the Debt Calculator WordPress plugin by Zack Katz (debt-calculator). This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.0.1, as published on 2025-01-16.
The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (High), characterized by network attack vector (AV:N), low attack complexity (AC:L), no privileges required (PR:N), user interaction required (UI:R), changed scope (S:C), and low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L). Any remote attacker can exploit it by tricking an authenticated user into performing unintended actions via a forged request, potentially enabling further impacts such as stored XSS.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/debt-calculator/vulnerability/wordpress-debt-calculator-plugin-1-0-1-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details this as a CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability in Debt Calculator version 1.0.1. Security practitioners should consult the advisory for recommended mitigations, such as plugin updates or configuration changes.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
CSRF in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the application (T1190); resulting stored XSS facilitates arbitrary JavaScript execution in client browsers (T1059.007).