Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-25088

High

Published: 07 February 2025

Published
07 February 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 0.0006 19.1th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-25088 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, corresponding to CWE-352, in the blackus3r WP Keyword Monitor WordPress plugin (wp-keyword-monitor). The issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.0.5 and was published on 2025-02-07. It carries 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), indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, user interaction, changed scope, and low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this CSRF vulnerability over the network by tricking an authenticated user, such as a site administrator, into submitting a malicious request through a forged webpage or link. This could enable the attacker to perform unauthorized actions on behalf of the victim within the plugin's context.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-keyword-monitor/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-keyword-monitor-plugin-1-0-5-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve describes the flaw as a CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability in WP Keyword Monitor version 1.0.5.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-352

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Why these techniques?

CSRF vulnerability enables attacker to inject stored XSS payload via malicious link (T1204.001) tricking authenticated user, which then facilitates arbitrary JavaScript execution in browser context (T1059.007).

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

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