CVE-2025-23533

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 0.0006 17.6th percentile

Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23533 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 17.6th 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-2025-23533 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the zetxek WP Lyrics (wplyrics) WordPress plugin that allows Stored XSS. This issue affects WP Lyrics versions from n/a through 0.4.1 and is associated with CWE-352.

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), resulting in a changed scope (S:C) and low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), for an overall CVSS score of 7.1 (CVSS:3.1). An attacker could craft a malicious request to trick an authenticated user, such as a site administrator, into submitting it unwittingly, leading to the storage of XSS payloads that execute in the context of other users viewing affected pages.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wplyrics/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-lyrics-plugin-0-4-1-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides further details on the vulnerability.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3234

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in zetxek WP Lyrics wplyrics allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP Lyrics: from n/a through <= 0.4.1.

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 T1190 (exploiting public-facing app) and T1059.007 (arbitrary JavaScript execution via XSS payload in victim browsers).

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