CVE-2025-23662
Published: 16 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23662 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-2025-23662 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the ryscript WP Panoramio (wp-panoramio) WordPress plugin that allows Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This issue affects WP Panoramio versions from n/a through 1.5.0 and is associated with CWE-352. The vulnerability has 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, low complexity, no required privileges, user interaction, changed scope, and low impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) can exploit the CSRF flaw to trick authenticated users—such as WordPress administrators or editors—into submitting malicious requests that store XSS payloads on the site. Exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R), typically via a crafted link or form on a malicious site, leading to persistent script execution for subsequent visitors. This enables limited data theft, site defacement, or session hijacking, with elevated scope (S:C) due to cross-origin effects.
Advisories, including the Patchstack database entry (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-panoramio/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-panoramio-plugin-1-5-0-csrf-to-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability?_s_id=cve), provide details on the vulnerability for mitigation guidance.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3326
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ryscript WP Panoramio wp-panoramio allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP Panoramio: from n/a through <= 1.5.0.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
The CSRF to stored XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly maps to exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190). Exploitation involves tricking users with a crafted malicious link (T1204.001). The stored XSS enables browser session hijacking (T1185).
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Mitigating Controls
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SC-23 enforces session authenticity protections such as anti-CSRF tokens, directly preventing unauthenticated attackers from forging requests to store XSS payloads.
SI-10 requires validation of all inputs to block malicious XSS payloads from being accepted and stored via the CSRF vector.
SI-15 filters information outputs to neutralize any stored XSS payloads, preventing their execution even if injected via CSRF.