CVE-2025-25106
Published: 07 February 2025
Description
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-25106 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the Starter Templates by FancyWP WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 2.0.0, allowing CSRF attacks against the plugin.
The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.6 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), meaning it is exploitable remotely with low complexity, no privileges required from the attacker, but reliant on user interaction, with a changed scope and high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. An unauthenticated attacker can trick an authenticated user, such as a site administrator, into submitting a malicious request, potentially enabling arbitrary plugin installation.
The Patchstack advisory details this as a CSRF vulnerability leading to arbitrary plugin installation in the WordPress Starter Templates by FancyWP plugin version 2.0.0, with further technical analysis available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/starter-templates/vulnerability/wordpress-starter-templates-by-fancywp-plugin-2-0-0-csrf-to-arbitrary-plugin-installation-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The CSRF vulnerability in the public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation by allowing an unauthenticated attacker to trick an authenticated admin into performing arbitrary plugin installation, mapping to T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application.