CVE-2025-26572
Published: 13 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-2025-26572 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, corresponding to CWE-352, in the jesseheap WP PHPList phplist-form-integration WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.7 inclusive. Published on 2025-02-13, 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).
A remote, unauthenticated attacker (PR:N) can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), though it requires user interaction (UI:R), such as tricking a victim into visiting a malicious site. Successful exploitation changes scope (S:C) and enables low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), potentially allowing unauthorized actions on behalf of the authenticated user.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/phplist-form-integration/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-phplist-plugin-1-7-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability in WP PHPList plugin version 1.7, including recommended mitigations such as updating to a patched version where available.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability in the public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables initial access by exploiting a web application over the network, matching T1190: Exploit Public-Facing Application. The attack vector (network access with user interaction to trigger unauthorized actions) aligns precisely with this technique.