CVE-2025-23715
Published: 16 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23715 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-2025-23715 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the RaymondDesign Post & Page Notes WordPress plugin (post-page-notes) that enables Stored XSS. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 0.1.1.
The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L), requiring user interaction (UI:R) such as visiting a malicious site while authenticated to the WordPress site. Exploitation changes the scope (S:C) and allows attackers to inject and store malicious scripts via XSS, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), with an overall CVSS v3.1 score of 7.1.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/post-page-notes/vulnerability/wordpress-post-page-notes-plugin-0-1-1-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides additional details on the vulnerability.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3367
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in RaymondDesign Post & Page Notes post-page-notes allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Post & Page Notes: from n/a through <= 0.1.1.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin enables T1190; stored XSS directly facilitates injection and execution of malicious JavaScript via T1059.007.
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces session authenticity mechanisms like anti-CSRF tokens to prevent unauthenticated attackers from forging requests that store malicious XSS scripts in the WordPress plugin.
Requires validation and sanitization of inputs to block malicious XSS payloads from being accepted and stored via the CSRF vulnerability in the plugin.
Filters outputs to neutralize and prevent execution of stored XSS scripts injected through the CSRF exploitation in the Post & Page Notes plugin.