Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-22685

High

Published: 03 February 2025

Published
03 February 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 0.0003 9.0th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22685 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 9.0th 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-2025-22685 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Tags to Keywords (tags-to-meta-keywords) by CheGevara29. The flaw enables Stored XSS and affects all versions from n/a through 1.0.1. It is associated with CWE-352 and has 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), indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, no privileges required, user interaction needed, changed scope, and low impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking an authenticated user, such as a site administrator, into interacting with a malicious webpage that submits a forged CSRF request to the plugin. This injects a malicious payload resulting in Stored XSS, which persists on the site and executes in the context of other users viewing affected pages.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/tags-to-meta-keywords/vulnerability/wordpress-tags-to-keywords-plugin-1-0-1-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides further details on this vulnerability.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in CheGevara29 Tags to Keywords tags-to-meta-keywords allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Tags to Keywords: from n/a through <= 1.0.1.

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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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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Why these techniques?

CSRF to stored XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and facilitates JavaScript execution via persistent XSS payloads in victim browsers (T1059.007).

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 like anti-CSRF tokens, directly preventing forged requests that exploit this WordPress plugin's CSRF vulnerability to inject stored XSS payloads.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

SI-10 mandates input validation to reject malicious payloads, comprehensively blocking the stored XSS injection enabled by the CSRF attack in this plugin.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

SI-2 ensures timely flaw remediation, such as patching or removing the vulnerable Tags to Keywords plugin (versions <=1.0.1), eliminating the root CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability.

References