CVE-2025-22328
Published: 07 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22328 is a high-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 39.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SC-23 (Session Authenticity) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-22328 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Elevio WordPress plugin by Dixa that allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Elevio versions from n/a through 4.4.1. The vulnerability 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) and maps to CWE-352.
Unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) can exploit the vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), though it requires user interaction (UI:R), such as a victim clicking a malicious link or performing an action on a crafted page. Exploitation via CSRF enables Stored XSS, allowing attackers to inject malicious scripts that persist and execute in the context of other users with changed scope (S:C), potentially leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/elevio/vulnerability/wordpress-elevio-plugin-4-4-1-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this WordPress Elevio plugin vulnerability. Security practitioners should review this reference for detailed mitigation recommendations.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2728
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Elevio by Dixa Elevio elevio allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Elevio: from n/a through <= 4.4.1.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CSRF-to-Stored-XSS in public WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 (public-facing app exploitation) and T1059.007 (JavaScript execution via persistent malicious scripts).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-23 enforces session authenticity mechanisms like anti-CSRF tokens, directly preventing forged requests that exploit this CSRF vulnerability to inject stored XSS payloads.
SI-10 requires validation of user inputs to the Elevio plugin, blocking malicious scripts from being stored via CSRF exploitation.
SI-15 mandates output filtering to neutralize any stored XSS payloads injected through the CSRF vulnerability before they execute in users' browsers.