CVE-2025-25156
Published: 07 February 2025
Description
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-25156 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Quote Comments WordPress plugin developed by Stanko Metodiev, which enables Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The flaw affects all versions of the Quote Comments plugin from unknown initial release through version 3.0.0 inclusive, as documented under CWE-352.
An unauthenticated attacker (PR:N) can exploit this over the network (AV:N) by tricking a victim user into performing an unintended action via a malicious webpage, with low attack complexity (AC:L) but requiring user interaction (UI:R). Exploitation submits a CSRF request that stores an XSS payload, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L) while changing scope (S:C), resulting in a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/quote-comments/vulnerability/wordpress-quote-comments-plugin-2-2-1-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the vulnerability in the Quote Comments plugin. Security practitioners should consult this reference for mitigation guidance, such as updating to a non-vulnerable version beyond 3.0.0.
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 web application (T1190) and facilitates arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browsers via the injected XSS payload (T1059.007).