CVE-2025-25147
Published: 07 February 2025
Description
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-25147 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Auto SEO WordPress plugin developed by Phillip.Gooch, affecting all versions from n/a through 2.5.6. The flaw enables Stored XSS via CSRF and 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). It is classified under CWE-352 and was published on 2025-02-07.
Unauthenticated attackers accessible over the network can exploit this vulnerability with low attack complexity by tricking authenticated users into interacting with a malicious request (UI:R). Successful exploitation changes the scope (S:C) and results in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory provides details on this WordPress Auto SEO plugin 2.5.6 CSRF-to-Stored XSS vulnerability, including mitigation guidance, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/auto-seo/vulnerability/wordpress-auto-seo-plugin-2-5-6-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 public-facing applications (T1190) and is triggered via malicious links due to the required user interaction (UI:R) in the CSRF exploitation (T1204.001).