Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23675

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 27.5th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23675 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 27.5th 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-2025-23675 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Import Users to MailChimp WordPress plugin by Sana Ullah. The flaw enables Stored XSS and affects the plugin in all versions from n/a through 1.0. It 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) and is associated with CWE-352.

The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers over the network with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation changes the interaction scope, allowing attackers to forge requests that result in stored XSS payloads. This enables script injection that persists and executes in the context of other users viewing affected pages, leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Patchstack's advisory provides details on the vulnerability, including mitigation recommendations, at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/import-users-to-mailchimp/vulnerability/wordpress-import-users-to-mailchimp-plugin-1-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Sana Ullah Import Users to MailChimp import-users-to-mailchimp allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Import Users to MailChimp: 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?

CSRF to stored XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables T1190 (exploit public-facing app) and requires T1204.001 (malicious link click) for forged request and payload injection.

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 directly protects against CSRF attacks by requiring session authenticity mechanisms like anti-CSRF tokens for state-changing requests in web applications.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

SI-10 enforces input validation to reject malicious XSS payloads injected via CSRF requests into the WordPress plugin.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

SI-15 applies output filtering and encoding to prevent execution of stored XSS payloads when affected pages are viewed by users.

References