CVE-2025-25072
Published: 07 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-25072 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-2025-25072 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the thunderbax WP Admin Custom Page WordPress plugin (wp-admin-custom-page) that enables Stored XSS. The flaw affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 1.5.0 and is classified under CWE-352 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).
The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L) but requires user interaction (UI:R), such as an administrator clicking a malicious link. Successful exploitation via CSRF tricks the victim into submitting a request that stores a malicious XSS payload on the custom admin page, enabling script execution in the context of subsequent admin users viewing it (S:C). This grants limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L).
Mitigation guidance is available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-admin-custom-page/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-admin-custom-page-plugin-1-5-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-4012
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in thunderbax WP Admin Custom Page wp-admin-custom-page allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP Admin Custom Page: from n/a through <= 1.5.0.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the application (T1190) and is triggered via a malicious link requiring user interaction (T1204.001).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-23 requires session authenticity mechanisms like anti-CSRF tokens, directly preventing unauthenticated attackers from tricking admins into storing malicious XSS payloads via forged requests.
SI-10 mandates input validation to reject or sanitize malicious XSS payloads submitted through the CSRF vector, blocking storage in the custom admin page.
SI-15 enforces output filtering and encoding to neutralize any stored XSS payloads when admins view the custom page, preventing script execution.