CVE-2025-30572
Published: 24 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-30572 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 24.1th 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-2025-30572 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Simple Rating WordPress plugin developed by Igor Yavych, which enables Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The flaw affects the plugin in all versions from n/a through 1.4 inclusive. It is associated with CWE-352 and 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 high severity due to network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, user interaction, and scope change with low impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability remotely by crafting a malicious request that tricks an authenticated user—typically via a phishing link or malicious webpage—into submitting a CSRF-protected action without their knowledge. Successful exploitation stores an XSS payload on the site, which executes in the context of other users' browsers, potentially leading to session hijacking, data theft, or further site compromise within the plugin's scope.
The Patchstack advisory provides details on this vulnerability, including assessment and recommended actions; practitioners should consult https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/simple-rating/vulnerability/wordpress-simple-rating-plugin-1-4-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-to-stored-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve for mitigation guidance, such as updating to a patched version if available.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-7935
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Igor Yavych Simple Rating simple-rating allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Simple Rating: from n/a through <= 1.4.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
The CSRF to stored XSS vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190), delivery through spearphishing links to trick authenticated users (T1566.002), and browser session hijacking via the injected XSS payload (T1185).
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Mitigating Controls
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SC-23 enforces session authenticity mechanisms like anti-CSRF tokens or challenge-response, directly preventing forged requests that exploit the CSRF vulnerability to store XSS payloads.
SI-10 requires validation of all inputs to the Simple Rating plugin, rejecting malicious XSS payloads before they are stored via the CSRF attack.
SI-15 mandates output filtering and encoding for plugin-generated web pages, blocking execution of any stored XSS payloads inserted through the CSRF vulnerability.