CVE-2025-27332
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in gmnazmul Smart Maintenance & Countdown WordPress plugin through version 1.2. The vulnerability was reported on February 14, 2025, and publicly disclosed on February 24, 2025. The vulnerability allows attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks through CSRF (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 tracked as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery). The issue affects unauthenticated users and was discovered by security researcher Nguyen Xuan Chien (Patchstack, NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The combination of CSRF with Stored XSS capabilities could lead to compromised user sessions, data theft, and potential site defacement (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. The issue affects versions through 1.2 of the Smart Maintenance & Countdown plugin (Patchstack).

Additional resources


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