Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NSummary
CVE-2025-9623 is a medium-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). 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 5th 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 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-27650
Vulnerability Data
The Admin in English with Switch plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the enable_eng function. This makes it possible…
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for unauthenticated attackers to modify administrator language settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CSRF in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation via malicious link requiring admin interaction.
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Control response
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires enforcement of authorization checks on all state-changing actions, which would mandate nonce/token validation to block forged CSRF requests.
Requires validation of all inputs (including security tokens such as nonces) before processing actions like language-setting changes.
Ensures session authenticity mechanisms are in place that can be extended to bind and validate requests against active sessions to mitigate CSRF.
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.
Secure SDLC practices directly require anti-CSRF controls such as tokens or SameSite attributes.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
By denying access to phishing or malicious sites, the control lowers the likelihood that a user will be tricked into submitting a forged request that performs an unintended action on another site.
Contextual intelligence about emerging CSRF toolkits can be translated into updated anti-CSRF token or same-site policy configurations across applications.