Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-28859

Medium

Published: 11 March 2025

Published
11 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.8th percentile
Risk Priority 9 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-2025-28859 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the CodeVibrant Maintenance Notice WordPress plugin. The issue affects all versions of the Maintenance Notice plugin from n/a through 1.0.6 inclusive. Published on 2025-03-11, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N).

The vulnerability enables exploitation over the network with low attack complexity and no required privileges, though it requires user interaction. An attacker can trick an authenticated user, such as a site administrator, into submitting a malicious request, potentially leading to unauthorized actions with low integrity impact but no effects on confidentiality or availability.

Patchstack provides details on the vulnerability in its advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/maintenance-notice/vulnerability/wordpress-maintenance-notice-plugin-1-0-5-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-352

Affected Products

codevibrant
maintenance notice
≤ 1.0.5

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 in public-facing WordPress plugin enables network exploitation of unauthorized actions via tricked user interaction.

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

References