CVE-2025-25071
Published: 07 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-25071 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 24.0th 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-2025-25071 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Vignette Ads WordPress plugin (vignete-ads) developed by topplugins, which enables Stored XSS. Published on 2025-02-07, the issue affects all versions from n/a through 0.2 inclusive. It 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) and maps to CWE-352.
The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L), though it requires user interaction (UI:R), such as an administrator visiting a malicious site. Exploitation involves tricking the user into submitting a CSRF request that stores an XSS payload on the affected site, leading to execution in the context of the plugin with changed scope (S:C) and low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L).
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/vignete-ads/vulnerability/wordpress-vignette-ads-plugin-0-2-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-4011
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in topplugins Vignette Ads vignete-ads allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Vignette Ads: from n/a through <= 0.2.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability in the public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of a public-facing application to achieve unauthorized code execution in the browser context.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-23 enforces session authenticity through mechanisms like anti-CSRF tokens, directly preventing unauthenticated attackers from tricking users into submitting requests that store XSS payloads.
SI-10 validates information inputs to the Vignette Ads plugin, blocking malicious XSS payloads from being accepted and stored via CSRF exploitation.
SI-15 filters plugin information outputs to prevent execution of any stored XSS payloads in the victim's browser context.