CVE-2025-28922
Published: 11 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-28922 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 24.0th 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-2025-28922 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the Go To Top WordPress plugin developed by Terence D. The flaw enables Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 0.0.8 inclusive. The vulnerability carries 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), indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity.
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely without authentication privileges by tricking a targeted user, typically a site administrator, into interacting with a malicious webpage (UI:R). This user interaction triggers a CSRF request that injects and stores malicious XSS payloads on the affected WordPress site. Successful exploitation results in low-level impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a changed scope that elevates the effective privileges of the injected script for subsequent users viewing the tampered content.
Mitigation guidance is available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/go-to-top/vulnerability/wordpress-go-to-top-plugin-0-0-8-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, which details the vulnerability in the context of the Go To Top WordPress plugin version 0.0.8. Security practitioners should update to a patched version if available or disable the plugin on affected sites.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-7873
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Terence D. Go To Top go-to-top allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Go To Top: from n/a through <= 0.0.8.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
CSRF vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation to inject stored XSS payloads.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-23 requires session authenticity mechanisms like CSRF tokens, directly preventing forged requests that inject stored XSS payloads in the Go To Top plugin.
SI-10 enforces input validation to block malicious XSS payloads from being accepted and stored via the CSRF vulnerability.
SI-15 applies output filtering and encoding to neutralize stored XSS payloads when rendered, mitigating execution even if injection occurs.