CVE-2025-23499
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-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.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA CSRF vulnerability in the Board Election plugin allows authenticated attackers to inject stored XSS payloads. By tricking an administrator into visiting a malicious site while logged in, attackers can submit crafted requests that store malicious scripts in the election board content, which then execute when other users view the affected pages.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if Board Election plugin is installedCheck the plugins or extensions list in the application admin panel, or search for plugin files named 'board election', 'election', or similar in the plugins/extensions directoryAffected if Board Election plugin is present in the system
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Verify the plugin is enabled and activeConfirm the plugin status in the admin panel shows it as enabled, or check the database configuration tables for the plugin's enabled stateAffected if Plugin is enabled and operational
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Inspect election board content for suspicious scriptsAccess the election board content areas in the application and view the HTML source of displayed content, or query the database tables storing election board entries for script tags, iframe tags, or event handlers like onload/onerrorAffected if Stored XSS payloads (script tags, javascript: URIs, or event handlers) are present in election board content
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Check state-changing forms for anti-CSRF protectionView the HTML source of forms that modify election board content (create/edit/delete entries) and verify each form includes a hidden CSRF token field or anti-CSRF token in the request headersAffected if Forms lack CSRF tokens or have no anti-CSRF validation mechanism
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Review election board content storage for lack of sanitizationAttempt to submit benign test input with HTML characters (<script>alert(1)</script>) through the election board submission form, then verify if the application stores and displays the raw HTML without encoding or sanitizationAffected if User input is stored and rendered without sanitization or encoding
You are affected if the Board Election plugin is installed and enabled, election board content displays unsanitized user input, or the plugin's forms lack anti-CSRF protection.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scopedImplement anti-CSRF tokens on all state-changing forms and validate/sanitize all user inputs to prevent XSS injection.
Board Election plugin version 1.0.2 or later
- Update the Board Election plugin to version 1.0.2 or later
- Verify the update was successfully applied by checking the plugin version in WordPress admin
- Test the board election functionality to confirm the CSRF protection is working and no stored XSS can be injected
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
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- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-23499 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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