CVE-2025-70031
Published: 09 March 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-70031 is a high-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Sunbird Sunbirded-Portal. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 7.6th 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).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly remediates the CSRF vulnerability in SunbirdEd-portal v1.13.4 through timely identification, reporting, and patching of the specific flaw.
Requires session authenticity mechanisms like CSRF tokens to verify that requests originate from legitimate user interactions and prevent forged cross-site requests.
Enforces validation of information inputs, including anti-CSRF tokens, to block unauthorized actions triggered by malicious cross-site requests.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CSRF in public-facing web portal exploited via crafted malicious link requiring user interaction.
NVD Description
An issue pertaining to CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery was discovered in Sunbird-Ed SunbirdEd-portal v1.13.4.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-70031 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, discovered in Sunbird-Ed SunbirdEd-portal version 1.13.4. Published on 2026-03-09, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), reflecting its high severity due to network accessibility, low attack complexity, and potential for significant impacts.
An unauthenticated attacker (PR:N) can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) by tricking a user into interacting with a malicious site or resource (UI:R), such as clicking a crafted link. With low complexity (AC:L) and unchanged scope (S:U), successful exploitation enables the attacker to perform unauthorized actions on the victim's behalf within the SunbirdEd-portal, resulting in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H).
Mitigation details and additional information are referenced in advisories available at https://gist.github.com/zcxlighthouse/470214b2f6fb0c82caecb9f369159006, https://github.com/Sunbird-Ed, and https://github.com/Sunbird-Ed/SunbirdEd-portal.
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