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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-23822
CVE-2025-23822:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Category Custom Fields WordPress plugin version 1.0 and below contains a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-23822. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher SOPROBRO, reported on December 7, 2024, and publicly disclosed on January 16, 2025 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 7.1 (Low severity) and is classified under the OWASP Top 10 category A1: Broken Access Control. The security issue affects unauthenticated users and can potentially lead to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks (Patchstack).
Impact
This vulnerability could enable malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The impact is considered to have low severity and is deemed unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
As of January 21, 2025, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The affected versions include Category Custom Fields plugin version 1.0 and below (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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