CVE-2025-24699
Published: 14 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-24699 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 26.5th 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-2025-24699 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the WP Coder plugin (wp-coder) developed by Wow-Company for WordPress. This flaw enables Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks and affects all versions of WP Coder from n/a through 3.6 inclusive. The vulnerability was published on 2025-02-14.
The vulnerability carries 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 attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction needed, with a changed scope leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Any unauthenticated attacker can exploit it by tricking an authenticated user (e.g., via a malicious webpage) into performing a state-changing request, resulting in XSS execution in the victim's browser context within the WordPress site.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-coder/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-coder-plugin-3-6-csrf-to-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3891
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Wow-Company WP Coder wp-coder allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects WP Coder: from n/a through <= 3.6.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CSRF-to-XSS vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browser context (T1059.007).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Flaw remediation requires timely patching of the vulnerable WP Coder plugin versions up to 3.6 to directly eliminate the CSRF-to-XSS vulnerability.
Session authenticity mechanisms, such as anti-CSRF tokens, prevent unauthorized state-changing requests that exploit this CSRF vulnerability leading to XSS.
Information input validation detects and blocks malicious payloads delivered via CSRF requests that would otherwise result in XSS execution.