CVE-2025-23463
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress plugin 'MD Custom content after or before of post' version 1.0 and earlier. The vulnerability was reported on October 17, 2024, and publicly disclosed on January 16, 2025. This security issue, identified as CVE-2025-23463, allows for Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks and affects the plugin developed by Mukesh Dak (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The issue is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and requires no authentication for exploitation, though it does require user interaction (NVD, Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The combination of CSRF with Stored XSS capabilities increases the potential impact, as it could lead to persistent malicious code execution in the context of other users' browsers (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The security issue has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).

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