CVE-2025-27298
Published: 24 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-27298 is a high-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.3 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 45.6th 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-2025-27298 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, mapped to CWE-352, in the cmstactics WP Video Posts WordPress plugin (wp-video-posts). The flaw enables OS Command Injection and affects all versions from n/a through 3.5.1. Published on 2025-02-24, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.3 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this over the network with no privileges required, though it demands high attack complexity and user interaction, such as tricking an authenticated site visitor into submitting a forged request via a malicious webpage. Successful exploitation allows OS Command Injection, resulting in remote code execution with high impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, while changing the scope of compromise.
The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this CSRF-to-RCE vulnerability in WP Video Posts version 3.5.1, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-video-posts/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-video-posts-plugin-3-5-1-csrf-to-remote-code-execution-rce-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-4337
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in cmstactics WP Video Posts wp-video-posts allows OS Command Injection.This issue affects WP Video Posts: from n/a through <= 3.5.1.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CSRF vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application for initial access (T1190) and facilitates OS command injection leading to RCE via Unix shell commands (T1059.004).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-23 requires mechanisms to protect session authenticity such as anti-CSRF tokens, directly preventing the forged requests that trigger OS command injection in the WP Video Posts plugin.
SI-10 mandates validation of information inputs, blocking malicious commands from being executed via the CSRF-induced OS command injection vulnerability in the plugin.
SI-2 requires timely remediation of identified flaws, directly addressing the CSRF-to-RCE vulnerability in WP Video Posts versions through <=3.5.1 via patching.