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CVE-2025-23577: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in Sourov Amin's Word Freshener WordPress plugin affecting versions through 1.3. The vulnerability was disclosed on January 16, 2025, and assigned identifier CVE-2025-23577. The issue allows attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (HIGH) with the following vector: 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) (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication, potentially leading to stored cross-site scripting attacks (Patchstack).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires no authentication to exploit, though it does require user interaction. It has been classified as having low attack complexity, making it relatively straightforward to exploit (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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Source: This report was generated using AI

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