Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23872

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 0.0014 33.4th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-23872 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the PayForm WordPress plugin that allows Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This issue affects PayForm versions from n/a through <= 2.0 and is associated with CWE-352. The vulnerability was published on 2025-01-16.

The CVSS v3.1 base score is 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 privileges required, and user interaction needed, with changed scope and low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit it by tricking users into performing unintended actions, leading to stored XSS execution.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/payform/vulnerability/wordpress-payform-plugin-2-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

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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T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
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Why these techniques?

Vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190). CSRF requires tricking users via malicious link to trigger unintended actions leading to stored XSS (T1204.001).

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

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