Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-25147

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 0.0013 32.0th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-25147 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 32.0th 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-2025-25147 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Auto SEO WordPress plugin developed by Phillip.Gooch, affecting all versions from n/a through 2.5.6. The flaw enables Stored XSS via CSRF and 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). It is classified under CWE-352 and was published on 2025-02-07.

Unauthenticated attackers accessible over the network can exploit this vulnerability with low attack complexity by tricking authenticated users into interacting with a malicious request (UI:R). Successful exploitation changes the scope (S:C) and results in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The Patchstack advisory provides details on this WordPress Auto SEO plugin 2.5.6 CSRF-to-Stored XSS vulnerability, including mitigation guidance, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/auto-seo/vulnerability/wordpress-auto-seo-plugin-2-5-6-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Phillip.Gooch Auto SEO auto-seo allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Auto SEO: from n/a through <= 2.5.6.

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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T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
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Why these techniques?

The CSRF-to-Stored XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and is triggered via malicious links due to the required user interaction (UI:R) in the CSRF exploitation (T1204.001).

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 to directly prevent forged requests that store XSS payloads in the Auto SEO plugin.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

SI-10 requires validation of inputs to block malicious scripts from being accepted and stored via the CSRF vulnerability.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

SI-15 mandates output filtering to neutralize any stored XSS payloads before they are rendered and executed in users' browsers.

References