CVE-2025-23827
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The vulnerability CVE-2025-23827 affects the WordPress Strx Magic Floating Sidebar Maker plugin versions 1.4.1 and below. It was discovered by researcher SOPROBRO and publicly disclosed on January 16, 2025. The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) issue that could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 7.1, indicating a low severity impact. The CVSS vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, which suggests the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. As a CSRF vulnerability that leads to stored XSS, it potentially enables attackers to perform actions on behalf of authenticated users without their consent (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. The issue was initially reported by SOPROBRO on December 07, 2024, and published by Patchstack on January 16, 2025 (Patchstack).

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