CVE-2025-27332
Published: 24 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-27332 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 33.3th 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-2025-27332 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Smart Maintenance & Countdown by gmnazmul, which enables Stored XSS. The issue affects all versions of the plugin up to and including 1.2. It has been assigned 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) and maps to CWE-352.
The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers over the network with low complexity, requiring only user interaction such as a victim visiting a malicious site. Exploitation via CSRF allows attackers to trick authenticated administrators into performing unintended actions that store XSS payloads on the site. Successful attacks result in low-impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability effects with a changed scope, potentially leading to script execution in the context of other users viewing the affected page.
Patchstack has published details on the vulnerability, including analysis of the CSRF-to-Stored XSS chain in Smart Maintenance & Countdown version 1.2, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/smart-maintenance-countdown/vulnerability/wordpress-smart-maintenance-countdown-plugin-1-2-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-4314
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in gmnazmul Smart Maintenance & Countdown smart-maintenance-countdown allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Smart Maintenance & Countdown: from n/a through <= 1.2.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CSRF-to-Stored XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and injection/execution of arbitrary JavaScript in victim browsers (T1059.007).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SI-2 requires identifying, reporting, and correcting specific flaws like the CSRF-to-Stored XSS vulnerability in the Smart Maintenance & Countdown plugin up to version 1.2.
SC-23 enforces session authenticity mechanisms such as anti-CSRF tokens to prevent unauthenticated attackers from tricking admins into storing XSS payloads via forged requests.
SI-10 validates and sanitizes inputs to block malicious XSS scripts from being stored through the CSRF exploitation vector.