CVE-2025-28859
Published: 11 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-28859 is a medium-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Codevibrant Maintenance Notice. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 33.1th 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-2025-28859 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the CodeVibrant Maintenance Notice WordPress plugin. The issue affects all versions of the Maintenance Notice plugin from n/a through 1.0.6 inclusive. Published on 2025-03-11, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N).
The vulnerability enables exploitation over the network with low attack complexity and no required privileges, though it requires user interaction. An attacker can trick an authenticated user, such as a site administrator, into submitting a malicious request, potentially leading to unauthorized actions with low integrity impact but no effects on confidentiality or availability.
Patchstack provides details on the vulnerability in its advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/maintenance-notice/vulnerability/wordpress-maintenance-notice-plugin-1-0-5-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-7829
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in CodeVibrant Maintenance Notice maintenance-notice allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Maintenance Notice: from n/a through <= 1.0.6.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CSRF in public-facing WordPress plugin enables network exploitation of unauthorized actions via tricked user interaction.
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-23 requires session authenticity mechanisms such as anti-CSRF tokens to prevent attackers from forging requests that exploit authenticated user sessions in the WordPress plugin.
SI-10 enforces validation of information inputs, including CSRF tokens, to block malicious forged requests targeting the Maintenance Notice plugin.
IA-11 mandates re-authentication for privileged actions, mitigating CSRF by requiring fresh credentials before executing potentially unauthorized requests tricked from authenticated admins.