CVE-2025-53268: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress Import external attachments plugin, affecting versions up to 1.5.12. The vulnerability was identified on June 27, 2025, and was assigned CVE-2025-53268. The issue was reported by security researcher Nguyen Xuan Chien on May 26, 2025 (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium), using the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability requires no privileges (unauthenticated) to exploit, though it does require user interaction (NVD, Patchstack).

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The impact is considered low severity, though it poses a security risk to affected WordPress installations (Patchstack).

No official fix is available for this vulnerability as the software appears to be abandoned. The recommended mitigation strategy is to remove and replace the software with an alternative solution. Note that merely deactivating the plugin does not remove the security threat unless a virtual patch is deployed (Patchstack).