Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23424

High

Published: 16 January 2025

Published
16 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 0.0010 28.0th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23424 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 28.0th 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-2025-23424 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, corresponding to CWE-352, in the Marquee Style RSS News Ticker WordPress plugin developed by bnovotny. The issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 3.2.0 inclusive.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no required privileges (PR:N), though it requires user interaction (UI:R), such as tricking a logged-in user into visiting a malicious site. Exploitation changes scope (S:C) and can lead to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), earning a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.

The Patchstack advisory details this as a CSRF-to-stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability specifically in version 3.2.0 of the WordPress Marquee Style RSS News Ticker plugin.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in bnovotny Marquee Style RSS News Ticker marquee-style-rss-news-ticker allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Marquee Style RSS News Ticker: from n/a through <= 3.2.0.

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 arbitrary JavaScript execution via injected payloads (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

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Directly remediates the specific CSRF vulnerability in Marquee Style RSS News Ticker plugin versions through timely flaw patching, preventing exploitation.

SC-23 Session Authenticity good match
prevent

Enforces session authenticity with mechanisms like CSRF tokens to block forged requests that exploit this vulnerability.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Validates information inputs on state-changing endpoints to reject unauthenticated forged requests lacking CSRF protections as in this CVE.

References