Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-25123

High

Published: 07 February 2025

Published
07 February 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0007 21.7th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-25123 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 21.7th 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-2025-25123 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the xdark Easy Related Posts (easy-related-posts) WordPress plugin that allows Stored XSS. This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through version 2.0.2 inclusive.

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. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated users into submitting malicious requests, enabling the storage of XSS payloads that execute in the context of changed scope, with low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Patchstack's advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/easy-related-posts/vulnerability/wordpress-easy-related-posts-plugin-2-0-2-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the CSRF to Stored XSS vulnerability specifically in Easy Related Posts version 2.0.2.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in xdark Easy Related Posts easy-related-posts allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Easy Related Posts: from n/a through <= 2.0.2.

CWE(s)
CWE-352

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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Why these techniques?

The CSRF to Stored XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the application over the network (T1190) and facilitates arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser context via the stored XSS payload (T1059.007).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SC-23 Session Authenticity good match
prevent

SC-23 enforces session authenticity mechanisms like anti-CSRF tokens, directly preventing unauthenticated attackers from forging requests to store XSS payloads in the WordPress plugin.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

SI-10 requires validation of information inputs, blocking malicious XSS payloads from being stored via CSRF-submitted requests in the vulnerable plugin.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

SI-15 mandates output filtering, preventing execution of any stored XSS payloads originating from the CSRF vulnerability when content is rendered.

References