CVE-2025-23499: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress Board Election plugin, developed by Pascal Casier. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-23499, affects versions through 1.0.1 and allows attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The issue was initially reported by researcher SOPROBRO on October 19, 2024, and was publicly disclosed on January 16, 2025 (Patchstack).

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 vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and requires no authentication to exploit, though it does require user interaction (Patchstack).

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 scripts being stored on the affected website (Patchstack).

As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The issue affects Board Election plugin versions up to and including 1.0.1 (Patchstack).