Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-31449

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 abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-31449 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WordPress plugin The Visitor Counter by EricH (the-visitor-counter) that allows Stored XSS. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.4.3. It has been assigned CWE-352 and 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).

An unauthenticated attacker (PR:N) can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L) by tricking a user into performing an unintended action, such as via a malicious webpage that requires user interaction (UI:R). Successful exploitation enables storage of an XSS payload, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope (S:C).

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/the-visitor-counter/vulnerability/wordpress-the-visitor-counter-plugin-1-4-3-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides further details on this vulnerability.

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?

CSRF to stored XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) and client-side JavaScript execution via the injected XSS payload (T1059.007).

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

References