Security Resilience

CVE-2025-28862

CSRF in Venugopal Comment Date And Gravatar Remover 1.0

CSRF
Published
11 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0019 9th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2025-28862 is a medium-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Venugopal Comment Date And Gravatar Remover. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Internal Defacement (T1491.001); ranked at the 9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SC-23 (Session Authenticity) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2025-28862 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the WordPress plugin "Comment Date and Gravatar Remover" (also known as remove-date-and-gravatar-under-comment by Venugopal). The issue affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through version 1.0 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), indicating medium severity with low integrity impact and no effects on confidentiality or availability.

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and no required privileges, though it demands user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Any unauthenticated adversary can craft and deliver forged requests to trick an authenticated WordPress user—typically an administrator or editor—into inadvertently performing unauthorized actions on the plugin's settings or functions, potentially leading to unintended modifications.

The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this CSRF issue in the WordPress Comment Date and Gravatar Remover plugin version 1.0: https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/remove-date-and-gravatar-under-comment/vulnerability/wordpress-comment-date-and-gravatar-remover-plugin-1-0-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve. Security practitioners should consult this reference for recommended mitigations, such as applying any available updates or implementing CSRF protections.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A01:2025 Broken Access Control

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Venugopal Comment Date and Gravatar remover remove-date-and-gravatar-under-comment allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Comment Date and Gravatar remover: from n/a through <= 1.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-352

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1491.001 Internal Defacement Impact
An adversary may deface systems internal to an organization in an attempt to intimidate or mislead users, thus discrediting the integrity of the systems.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

venugopal
comment date and gravatar remover
1.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V3.3.2
  • V3.5.1
  • V10.2.1

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement partial match

Access enforcement requires verifying that state-changing requests originate from the authenticated user rather than a forged cross-site source.

SC-23 Session Authenticity partial match

Protecting session authenticity prevents attackers from replaying or forging authenticated requests via the victim's browser.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
blocks

Secure SDLC practices directly require anti-CSRF controls such as tokens or SameSite attributes.

References