Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)Weakness · CWE-352

CVE-2025-23710

HIGH · 7.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-01-16
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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78/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges

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 · unedited
Cross-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 confidence

A 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.

MitigationImplement 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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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 checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify if Flying Twitter Birds plugin is installed
    Access your WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins, and search for 'Flying Twitter Birds' or 'Twitter Birds' in the plugin list
    Affected if The plugin appears in the installed plugins list
  2. Determine the installed plugin version
    In 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)
  3. Verify admin access to plugin settings
    Navigate 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 exist
    Affected if You can access the plugin configuration interface as an administrator
  4. Confirm absence of CSRF protection on forms
    Inspect the HTML source of the plugin settings forms by right-clicking > View Page Source, then search for 'nonce', '_wpnonce', or 'token' within the form tags
    Affected if The plugin forms contain no nonce or CSRF token fields in their HTML markup
  5. Check for stored XSS injection points
    Review plugin settings forms for input fields (text inputs, textareas) that accept user content and are saved to the database without visible sanitization indicators
    Affected 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.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Implement 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.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation2.0 h
  • Implementation4.0 h
  • Testing2.0 h
  • Review / QA1.0 h
9.0 hours of engineering $1,600
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