CVE-2025-25128
Published: 07 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-25128 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 23.8th 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).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
SC-23 enforces session authenticity mechanisms like CSRF tokens, directly preventing unauthorized forged requests that store XSS payloads.
SI-10 requires validation of user inputs to block malicious XSS payloads from being stored via CSRF exploitation.
SI-15 filters information outputs to neutralize and prevent execution of any stored XSS payloads in user browsers.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The CSRF to stored XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190). The stored XSS payloads facilitate execution of arbitrary JavaScript in victim browsers (T1059.007).
NVD Description
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in orlandolac Facilita Form Tracker facilita-form-tracker allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Facilita Form Tracker: from n/a through <= 1.0.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-25128 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the WordPress plugin Facilita Form Tracker (facilita-form-tracker) developed by orlandolac. The issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.0 and allows for Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). It was published on 2025-02-07 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).
Unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) can exploit this over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), though it requires user interaction (UI:R) such as visiting a malicious site. By tricking an authenticated user into submitting a forged request, attackers can store XSS payloads, which then execute in the context of other users (S:C), potentially leading to low-impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability effects (C:L/I:L/A:L).
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/facilita-form-tracker/vulnerability/wordpress-facilita-form-tracker-plugin-1-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this CSRF to Stored XSS vulnerability in Facilita Form Tracker version 1.0.
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