Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-25086

High

Published: 27 March 2025

Published
27 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
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 23.4th 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-2025-25086 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the WPDeveloper Secret Meta (facebook-secret-meta) WordPress plugin that enables Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). Published on 2025-03-27, it affects all versions of the Secret Meta plugin through 1.2.1.

The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (High), with network attack vector (AV:N), low attack complexity (AC:L), no privileges required (PR:N), user interaction required (UI:R), and changed scope (S:C), resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L). Attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated users into performing unintended actions via malicious external sites, leading to reflected XSS execution in the victim's browser context.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/facebook-secret-meta/vulnerability/wordpress-secret-meta-plugin-1-2-1-csrf-to-reflected-cross-site-scripting-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.
T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
Why these techniques?

CSRF to reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) and is triggered via malicious links requiring user interaction (T1204.001).

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

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