CVE-2025-25148
Published: 07 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-25148 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 28.9th 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-2025-25148 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the WordPress plugin Read More Copy Link (also referred to as ElbowRobo Read More Copy Link or read-more-copy-link). This flaw enables Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and affects all versions of the plugin up to and including 1.0.2. The vulnerability 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).
An unauthenticated attacker (PR:N) can exploit the CSRF vulnerability over the network (AV:N) by tricking an authenticated WordPress user into interacting with a malicious webpage (UI:R), such as clicking a link or visiting a site that automatically submits a forged request. This action stores an XSS payload on the site, which then executes in the browser context of subsequent visitors (S:C), potentially allowing low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as session token theft or malicious script execution.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/read-more-copy-link/vulnerability/wordpress-read-more-copy-link-plugin-1-0-2-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on the vulnerability, with affected versions limited to <=1.0.2, recommending updates to patched releases for mitigation.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-4058
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ElbowRobo Read More Copy Link read-more-copy-link allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Read More Copy Link: from n/a through <= 1.0.2.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
The vulnerability is a CSRF flaw in a public-facing WordPress plugin that directly enables stored XSS exploitation over the network (T1190). The attack requires tricking an authenticated user into clicking a malicious link or visiting a crafted webpage to trigger the forged request (T1204.001).
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Mitigating Controls
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Session authenticity mechanisms like anti-CSRF tokens directly prevent forged requests that store XSS payloads in the WordPress plugin.
Input validation sanitizes user-submitted data to block malicious XSS payloads from being stored via the CSRF exploit.
Flaw remediation through timely patching of the vulnerable Read More Copy Link plugin up to version 1.0.2 eliminates the CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability.