CVE-2025-22343
Published: 07 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22343 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 31.9th 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).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Enforces session authenticity mechanisms like CSRF tokens to prevent unauthenticated attackers from tricking authenticated users into storing XSS payloads via forged requests.
Validates and sanitizes plugin inputs to block malicious XSS payloads from being accepted and stored in the wpSOL WordPress plugin.
Filters information outputs to neutralize any stored XSS payloads before they execute in the browsers of site visitors including administrators.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CSRF-to-Stored-XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of web application (T1190) and is triggered via user visit to attacker-controlled page (T1189).
NVD Description
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in koter84 wpSOL wpsol allows Stored XSS.This issue affects wpSOL: from n/a through <= 1.2.0.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-22343 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wpSOL WordPress plugin by koter84, which enables Stored XSS. The flaw affects wpSOL versions from n/a through 1.2.0 inclusive, as documented with 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).
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low complexity, requiring only user interaction such as visiting a malicious webpage. Exploitation leverages CSRF to trick authenticated users into submitting requests that store XSS payloads on the site, which then execute in the browsers of subsequent visitors, including administrators, with a changed scope and low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wpsol/vulnerability/wordpress-wpsol-plugin-1-2-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) details the vulnerability in the wpSOL plugin up to version 1.2.0.
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