CVE-2025-26571
Published: 13 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-26571 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 27.2th 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-2025-26571 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the Wibiya Toolbar WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 2.0 inclusive. Published on 2025-02-13, it 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).
The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers over the network with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction such as an administrator visiting a malicious webpage. Exploitation changes the scope and enables CSRF attacks that lead to stored XSS, allowing limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wibiya/vulnerability/wordpress-wibiya-toolbar-plugin-2-0-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-4227
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wibiya Wibiya Toolbar wibiya allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Wibiya Toolbar: from n/a through <= 2.0.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CSRF vuln in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 exploitation; leads to stored XSS facilitating JS code execution via T1059.007.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly mitigates CSRF by requiring mechanisms such as tokens to authenticate communication session legitimacy and prevent forged requests.
Requires validation and sanitization of inputs from external sources, including verification of CSRF tokens to block malicious forged requests.
Ensures timely flaw remediation by patching or removing the vulnerable Wibiya Toolbar plugin to eliminate the CSRF-to-stored-XSS vulnerability.