CVE-2025-23690
Published: 16 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23690 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 36.9th 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-2025-23690 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the ArtkanMedia Book a Place WordPress plugin (book-a-place) that enables Stored XSS. Published on 2025-01-16, it affects all versions from unknown starting point through 0.7.1, 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).
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this over the network with low attack complexity by tricking authenticated users into interacting with a malicious request, such as via a crafted webpage. Successful exploitation allows injection of Stored XSS payloads through the CSRF vector, potentially leading to low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a changed scope that could affect other users viewing the stored content.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/book-a-place/vulnerability/wordpress-book-a-place-plugin-0-7-1-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the CSRF-to-Stored XSS vulnerability specifically in Book a Place plugin version 0.7.1 for WordPress.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3346
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ArtkanMedia Book a Place book-a-place allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Book a Place: from n/a through <= 0.7.1.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CSRF in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application and injection of JavaScript-based Stored XSS payloads.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-23 requires mechanisms like anti-CSRF tokens to protect session authenticity, directly preventing unauthorized requests that exploit this CSRF vulnerability.
SI-10 mandates validation of all inputs to block malicious XSS payloads from being stored via the CSRF vector in the WordPress plugin.
SI-15 enforces output filtering to sanitize and prevent execution of any stored XSS payloads injected through the CSRF vulnerability.