CVE-2025-23980 HIGH

CVE-2025-23980: WordPress Full Circle plugin <= 0.5.7.8 - CSRF to Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Vendor James Andrews

Product Full Circle

Weakness CWE-352 · CSRF

Published January 31, 2025

Last update May 11, 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 James Andrews Full Circle full-circle allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Full Circle: from n/a through <= 0.5.7.8.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Full Circle versions 0.5.7.8 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 user, performs unwanted actions on their behalf. The attack requires the victim to visit the attacker's page while authenticated. Impact includes unauthorized data modification and limited information disclosure.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Perform unauthorized actions on a user's account by tricking them into visiting a malicious webpage.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

Users' accounts can be compromised to perform unwanted actions; data integrity and confidentiality at risk.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

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

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

January 31, 2025 CVE published

May 11, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23980 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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