Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23470

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 0.0014 33.7th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23470 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 33.7th 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-2025-23470 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, mapped to CWE-352, in the WordPress plugin "Visit Site Link enhanced" developed by xavsio4 with the slug visit-site-link-enhanced. The flaw enables Stored XSS and affects all versions from n/a through 1.0 inclusive. Published on 2025-01-16, it carries 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 with low attack complexity.

An unauthenticated attacker (PR:N) can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) by tricking a victim user, such as a site administrator, into performing an action via user interaction (UI:R), typically by visiting a malicious webpage. Successful exploitation via CSRF allows the storage of XSS payloads on the affected site, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L) with a changed scope (S:C) that may affect other users or components.

Mitigation details are documented in advisories such as the Patchstack database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/visit-site-link-enhanced/vulnerability/wordpress-visit-site-link-enhanced-plugin-1-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in xavsio4 Visit Site Link enhanced visit-site-link-enhanced allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Visit Site Link enhanced: from n/a through <= 1.0.

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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T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
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Why these techniques?

The CSRF to stored XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin is exploited by tricking an authenticated user (e.g., admin) into visiting a malicious webpage/link (T1204.001), directly enabling exploitation of the public-facing web application (T1190) to inject persistent malicious scripts.

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 anti-CSRF tokens, directly preventing unauthorized forged requests that enable storage of XSS payloads in the WordPress plugin.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

SI-10 validates information inputs to block malicious XSS payloads from being accepted and stored via the CSRF vector in the plugin.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

SI-15 filters information outputs to neutralize any stored XSS payloads injected through the CSRF vulnerability before they execute.

References