CVE-2025-23980

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

Published Jan 31, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 7.1 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Analysis

AI-generated

Technical impact

The vulnerability is a Cross‑Site Request Forgery that permits a malicious payload to be stored through the Full Circle plugin. An attacker who can submit a crafted request will have that payload saved by the plugin, and future visitors to the site will receive the stored code as part of the page, creating a stored cross‑site scripting (XSS) condition. The description indicates only stored XSS; no other impact claims should be made.

Affected Systems

Affected systems are any WordPress installation that includes the Full Circle plugin by James Andrews. All versions of the plugin from the earliest release up to and including 0.5.7.8 are vulnerable.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score of 7.1 signals high severity. The EPSS score below 1 % indicates only a very low probability of exploitation at present, and the vulnerability is not in the CISA KEV catalog. Because the flaw is a CSRF, the likely attack path requires the attacker to be able to act as a privileged user or trick an authenticated user into submitting a malicious request; these prerequisites are inferred from the CSRF nature of the flaw.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Update the Full Circle plugin to a version newer than 0.5.7.8.
  • If the update cannot be applied immediately, disable or uninstall the Full Circle plugin to prevent new payloads from being stored.
  • Restrict the use of the plugin to trusted administrators and enforce role restrictions to limit the potential scope of the flaw.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on May 2, 2026 at 05:08 UTC.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-3580 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in James Andrews Full Circle allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Full Circle: from n/a through 0.5.7.8.
History
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in James Andrews Full Circle allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Full Circle: from n/a through 0.5.7.8. 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.
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00019}

epss

{'score': 0.00023}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in James Andrews Full Circle allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Full Circle: from n/a through 0.5.7.8.
Title WordPress Full Circle plugin <= 0.5.7.8 - CSRF to Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
Weaknesses CWE-352
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

Weaknesses
  • CWE-352

    Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Patchstack
Published
Updated
May 11, 2026, 11:25 PM
Reserved
Jan 16, 2025, 11:33 AM
Status
Deferred
Published
Jan 31, 2025, 9:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 8:57 AM