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CVE-2025-23693: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in Stanisław Skonieczny's Secure CAPTCHA WordPress plugin, affecting versions through 1.2. The vulnerability was disclosed on January 16, 2025, and allows attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks (NVD, 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) and allows attackers to execute unwanted actions under the authentication of privileged users (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability enables attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks through CSRF, potentially compromising the security of the website and its users. The impact is rated as LOW priority despite the high CVSS score, suggesting limited real-world exploitation potential (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. The security issue has been classified as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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