Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23467

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-2025-23467 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-2025-23467 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the RSS News Scroller WordPress plugin developed by vimal.ghorecha. This flaw allows for Stored XSS and affects all versions of the plugin from an unspecified initial release through 2.0.0. The vulnerability was published on 2025-01-16 and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (High), with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L.

The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers accessible over the network, requiring low complexity and user interaction, such as tricking a site administrator into visiting a malicious site or clicking a crafted link. This CSRF condition enables the attacker to forge requests that inject malicious payloads, resulting in stored XSS. Exploitation achieves low impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a changed scope allowing cross-origin script execution that persists and affects other users viewing the RSS scroller content.

Mitigation details are available in advisories such as the Patchstack database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/rss-news-scroller/vulnerability/wordpress-rss-news-scroller-plugin-2-0-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in vimal.ghorecha RSS News Scroller rss-news-scroller allows Stored XSS.This issue affects RSS News Scroller: from n/a through <= 2.0.0.

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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Why these techniques?

The CSRF vulnerability leading to stored XSS in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications.

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 enforces session authenticity mechanisms such as CSRF tokens to prevent unauthenticated attackers from forging requests that inject stored XSS payloads into the RSS News Scroller.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

SI-10 requires validation of inputs to the RSS scroller, blocking malicious XSS scripts injected via CSRF exploits from being stored.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

SI-15 mandates output filtering to neutralize any stored XSS payloads when RSS scroller content is rendered for users.

References