Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-31440

High

Published: 28 March 2025

Published
28 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 0.0008 23.4th 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-2025-31440 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Strategy11 Team Terms of Use WordPress plugin (terms-of-use-2) that allows Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through version 2.0 inclusive.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity by tricking users into submitting malicious requests, requiring user interaction. Exploitation via CSRF enables the storage of XSS payloads, potentially leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope, as reflected in the 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 associated CWE-352.

The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this WordPress plugin vulnerability, including potential mitigation steps, accessible at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/terms-of-use-2/vulnerability/wordpress-terms-of-use-plugin-2-0-cross-site-request-forgery-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.
Why these techniques?

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

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

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