Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23895

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 22.3th 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-2025-23895 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Dan Cameron Add RSS WordPress plugin (add-rss) that allows Stored XSS. Published on 2025-01-16, this issue affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 1.5 and is associated with CWE-352. The vulnerability has 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).

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low complexity, requiring user interaction such as visiting a malicious site. Successful exploitation changes the scope of impact, enabling limited effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through CSRF-induced Stored XSS.

The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this CSRF to Stored XSS vulnerability in the WordPress Add RSS plugin version 1.5: https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/add-rss/vulnerability/wordpress-add-rss-plugin-1-5-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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Why these techniques?

CSRF to Stored XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of a public-facing web application.

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

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