Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-28931

High

Published: 11 March 2025

Published
11 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
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 0.0007 22.1th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-28931 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the DevriX Hashtags (wp-hashtags) WordPress plugin that allows Stored XSS. This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through version 0.3.2. Published on 2025-03-11, it is associated with CWE-352 and 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).

The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L), though it requires user interaction (UI:R). An attacker can trick an authenticated user into performing a state-changing action via a forged request, enabling the storage of malicious XSS payloads on the site. Successful exploitation changes scope (S:C) and results in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Patchstack's advisory documents this CSRF to Stored XSS vulnerability specifically in wp-hashtags version 0.3.2, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-hashtags/vulnerability/wordpress-wordpress-hashtags-plugin-0-3-2-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

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.
T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Why these techniques?

The CSRF to Stored XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the application (T1190) and facilitates injection/execution of malicious JavaScript payloads in user browsers (T1059.007).

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

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