Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-28868

Medium

Published: 11 March 2025

Published
11 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0013 33.1th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-28868 is a medium-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Condenast Ziplist Recipe. 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-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-28868 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the ZipList Recipe plugin (ziplist-recipe-plugin) for WordPress. The issue affects versions from n/a through 3.1 inclusive and was published on 2025-03-11.

The vulnerability 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). An unauthenticated attacker can exploit it over the network with low attack complexity, provided the victim performs required user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation enables low-impact integrity violations with no effect on confidentiality or availability.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/ziplist-recipe-plugin/vulnerability/wordpress-ziplist-recipe-plugin-3-1-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ZipList ZipList Recipe ziplist-recipe-plugin allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects ZipList Recipe: from n/a through <= 3.1.

CWE(s)
CWE-352

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1204.001 Malicious Link Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to gain execution.
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Why these techniques?

CSRF in public-facing WordPress plugin directly maps to exploiting a web application (T1190); exploitation requires victim to click malicious link (T1204.001).

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

condenast
ziplist recipe
≤ 3.1

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Directly remediates the CSRF vulnerability in the ZipList Recipe plugin by identifying, prioritizing, and applying patches or updates to affected versions up to 3.1.

SC-23 Session Authenticity good match
prevent

Protects against CSRF attacks by enforcing session authenticity mechanisms such as unique session identifiers and anti-CSRF tokens to validate legitimate requests.

SI-10 Information Input Validation partial match
prevent

Mitigates CSRF by validating recipe-related inputs for authenticity and integrity, preventing forged requests from succeeding even if session checks are bypassed.

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