Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-26768

High

Published: 16 February 2025

Published
16 February 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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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 19.9th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-26768 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the what3words Address Field 3-word-address-validation-field WordPress plugin, which allows Stored XSS. The issue affects all versions from unknown (n/a) through 4.0.15. It has 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) and is associated with CWE-352.

Unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) can exploit this remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) by tricking authenticated users into performing actions via a malicious site, requiring user interaction (UI:R). Successful exploitation leads to Stored XSS with a scope change (S:C), enabling limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L).

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/3-word-address-validation-field/vulnerability/wordpress-what3words-address-field-plugin-4-0-15-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on the vulnerability, with mitigation implied by updating beyond version 4.0.15.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-352

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

CSRF vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications to inject stored XSS.

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

References