CVE-2025-53331 HIGH

CVE-2025-53331: WordPress RSS Digest plugin <= 1.5 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability

Vendor Samcharrington

Product RSS Digest

Weakness CWE-352 · CSRF

Published June 27, 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 samcharrington RSS Digest rss-digest allows Stored XSS.This issue affects RSS Digest: from n/a through <= 1.5.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

RSS Digest versions 1.5 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 site without their knowledge. The attack requires the victim to visit the attacker's page while authenticated. This can lead to unauthorized changes to site configuration or content.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Perform unauthorized actions on the site by tricking an authenticated admin into visiting a malicious webpage.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

An attacker can modify site settings or content if they trick an admin into visiting a malicious link while logged in.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

Victim must be logged in to the site and visit an attacker-controlled webpage.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

June 27, 2025 CVE published

April 28, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53331 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html

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