CVE-2025-23710
Published: 16 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23710 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 42.7th 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-2025-23710 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Flying Twitter Birds WordPress plugin developed by Mayur Sojitra, which allows Stored XSS. This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through version 1.8 inclusive.
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 security scope and enables low-level impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, per the CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L). An attacker can trick an authenticated WordPress user into submitting a forged request, resulting in the storage of malicious scripts that execute when other users view affected pages.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/flying-twitter-birds/vulnerability/wordpress-flying-twitter-birds-plugin-1-8-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this CSRF to Stored XSS vulnerability in the WordPress Flying Twitter Birds plugin version 1.8 and provides relevant mitigation details.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3363
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Mayur Sojitra Flying Twitter Birds flying-twitter-birds allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Flying Twitter Birds: from n/a through <= 1.8.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
The CVE describes a vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin that can be exploited over the network (T1190). The CSRF to stored XSS results in execution of malicious scripts in victims' browsers, directly mapping to JavaScript interpreter abuse (T1059.007).
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Mitigating Controls
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Implements session authenticity mechanisms like anti-CSRF tokens to prevent unauthenticated attackers from forging requests that store malicious XSS payloads.
Validates all user inputs to the WordPress plugin to block malicious scripts from being stored via CSRF exploitation.
Filters outputs on affected pages to prevent execution of any stored XSS payloads from the CSRF vulnerability.