CVE-2025-23442 (GCVE-0-2025-23442)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-16 20:05 – Updated: 2026-04-28 16:11
VLAI
Title
WordPress Shockingly Big IE6 Warning plugin <= 1.6.3 - CSRF to Stored XSS vulnerability
Summary
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in mschertel Shockingly Big IE6 Warning shockingly-big-ie6-warning allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Shockingly Big IE6 Warning: from n/a through <= 1.6.3.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-17 17:22 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
mschertel Shockingly Big IE6 Warning Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.6.3 (custom)
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Date Public
2026-04-01 16:32
Credits
SOPROBRO | Patchstack Bug Bounty Program
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