CVE-2025-31449
Published: 28 March 2025
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
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
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).