Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-22589

High

Published: 07 January 2025

Published
07 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0018 39.0th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22589 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-2025-22589 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the bozdoz Quote Tweet (quote-tweet) WordPress plugin that allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Quote Tweet versions from an unspecified initial release through 0.7 inclusive.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1, rated as AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. It can be exploited remotely over the network with low attack complexity by unauthenticated attackers, though it requires user interaction and results in a change of scope with low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/quote-tweet/vulnerability/wordpress-quote-tweet-plugin-0-7-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve. The vulnerability is associated with CWE-352.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in bozdoz Quote Tweet quote-tweet allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Quote Tweet: from n/a through <= 0.7.

CWE(s)
CWE-352

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

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.
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Why these techniques?

CSRF-to-Stored-XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of a web application (T1190).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SC-23 Session Authenticity good match
prevent

SC-23 requires session authenticity mechanisms such as anti-CSRF tokens, directly preventing unauthorized state-changing requests that exploit this CSRF vulnerability.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

SI-10 enforces information input validation, blocking malicious XSS payloads from being stored through the CSRF vector in the WordPress plugin.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

SI-15 mandates information output filtering, preventing execution of any stored XSS payloads resulting from the CSRF exploitation.

References