CVE-2025-23710
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 Mayur Sojitra Flying Twitter Birds flying-twitter-birds allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Flying Twitter Birds: from n/a through <= 1.8.
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 Flying Twitter Birds plugin (versions up to 1.8) allows attackers to craft malicious requests that inject persistent malicious scripts (Stored XSS) into the application. The lack of anti-CSRF tokens on sensitive form actions enables attackers to trick authenticated administrators into executing unintended commands that store malicious payloads.
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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 Flying Twitter Birds plugin is installedAccess your WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins, and search for 'Flying Twitter Birds' or 'Twitter Birds' in the plugin listAffected if The plugin appears in the installed plugins list
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Determine the installed plugin versionIn the Plugins list, click on the plugin name or view details to see the version number displayed (typically shown as 'Version X.X')Affected if The version is 1.8 or lower (any version up to and including 1.8)
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Verify admin access to plugin settingsNavigate to the plugin settings page in your WordPress admin panel (usually under Settings or a dedicated menu item for this plugin) - this is where the vulnerable form actions existAffected if You can access the plugin configuration interface as an administrator
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Confirm absence of CSRF protection on formsInspect the HTML source of the plugin settings forms by right-clicking > View Page Source, then search for 'nonce', '_wpnonce', or 'token' within the form tagsAffected if The plugin forms contain no nonce or CSRF token fields in their HTML markup
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Check for stored XSS injection pointsReview plugin settings forms for input fields (text inputs, textareas) that accept user content and are saved to the database without visible sanitization indicatorsAffected if The plugin saves user-provided content to the database and displays it back in the admin area or frontend
You are affected if the Flying Twitter Birds plugin is installed at version 1.8 or lower and you can access its admin settings forms, which lack CSRF token protection and allow stored XSS injection.
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.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all state-changing form submissions and AJAX endpoints, and apply strict input validation and output encoding to prevent XSS. Update to a patched version if available.
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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.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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