CVE-2025-23499 HIGH

CVE-2025-23499: WordPress Board Election plugin <= 1.0.1 - CSRF to Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Vendor Pascal Casier

Product Board Election

Weakness CWE-352 · CSRF

Published January 16, 2025

Last update April 28, 2026

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CVSS base score

7.1/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction Required

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Pascal Casier Board Election board-election allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Board Election: from n/a through <= 1.0.1.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Board Election versions 1.0.1 and earlier are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. An attacker can craft a malicious webpage that, when visited by a logged-in site administrator, performs unwanted actions on the election system without the admin's knowledge or consent. The attack requires the victim to visit the attacker's page while authenticated.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Perform unwanted actions on the election system by tricking an authenticated admin into visiting a malicious webpage.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

An attacker can modify election settings, results, or user data if an admin visits a malicious link while logged in.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

The site admin must be logged in and visit an attacker-controlled webpage; no special privileges required.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

January 16, 2025 CVE published

April 28, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23499 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html AskarLabs — CWE-352 write-up Cross-Site Request Forgery

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