CVE-2025-25072
Published: 07 February 2025
Description
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-25072 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the thunderbax WP Admin Custom Page WordPress plugin (wp-admin-custom-page) that enables Stored XSS. The flaw affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 1.5.0 and is classified under CWE-352 with 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).
The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L) but requires user interaction (UI:R), such as an administrator clicking a malicious link. Successful exploitation via CSRF tricks the victim into submitting a request that stores a malicious XSS payload on the custom admin page, enabling script execution in the context of subsequent admin users viewing it (S:C). This grants limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L).
Mitigation guidance is available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-admin-custom-page/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-admin-custom-page-plugin-1-5-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the application (T1190) and is triggered via a malicious link requiring user interaction (T1204.001).