CVE-2025-23560
Published: 16 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23560 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-2025-23560 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the plumwd Web Testimonials WordPress plugin (web-testimonials) that enables Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). Published on 2025-01-16, the issue affects all versions from unknown starting point through 1.2 inclusive and is associated with CWE-352.
With 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), the vulnerability is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no privileges required, though it demands user interaction. An attacker can trick an authenticated user, such as a site administrator, into performing an unintended action via a forged request, leading to the storage of malicious XSS payloads on the site. This results in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope, allowing script execution in the context of other users viewing the testimonials.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/web-testimonials/vulnerability/wordpress-web-testimonials-plugin-1-2-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides further details on the vulnerability.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3248
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in plumwd Web Testimonials web-testimonials allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Web Testimonials: from n/a through <= 1.2.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
The CVE describes a CSRF vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin that directly enables stored XSS, allowing exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and execution of arbitrary JavaScript in victim browsers (T1059.007).
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
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Enforces session authenticity mechanisms like CSRF tokens to prevent forged requests from storing malicious XSS payloads in the Web Testimonials plugin.
Validates inputs to the testimonial storage functionality to reject malicious scripts injected via CSRF.
Filters outputs when displaying testimonials to prevent execution of any stored XSS payloads from the CSRF vulnerability.