Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-26963

Medium

Published: 25 February 2025

Published
25 February 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0010 26.5th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may send spearphishing emails with a malicious link in an attempt to gain access to victim systems.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-26963 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, mapped to CWE-352, in the ClickWhale WordPress plugin. It affects all versions of ClickWhale from n/a through 2.4.3. Published on 2025-02-25, the vulnerability enables CSRF attacks against the plugin without proper token validation.

The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L), indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction (such as clicking a malicious link). An attacker can exploit it by tricking an authenticated user, typically an administrator, into submitting a forged request via a malicious website, resulting in low-impact integrity and availability violations, such as unauthorized settings changes.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/clickwhale/vulnerability/wordpress-clickwhale-plugin-2-4-3-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-to-settings-change-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the issue as a CSRF vulnerability in ClickWhale 2.4.3 that enables settings changes. Security practitioners should consult the advisory for patch availability and mitigation guidance.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-352

Affected Products

flowdee
clickwhale
≤ 2.4.4

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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T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
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T1566.002 Spearphishing Link Initial Access
Adversaries may send spearphishing emails with a malicious link in an attempt to gain access to victim systems.
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Why these techniques?

CSRF vuln in public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation via malicious links/websites requiring user interaction to perform unauthorized settings changes.

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

References