CVE-2025-23743
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 MartijnScheijbeler Social Analytics social-analytics allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Social Analytics: from n/a through <= 0.2.
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 confidenceCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Social Analytics plugin allows attackers to inject and store malicious JavaScript payloads (Stored XSS) through forged requests. When authenticated users trigger the crafted request, the malicious payload gets stored and executes in browsers of other users viewing the affected content.
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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 Social Analytics plugin is installedCheck your CMS/plugin directory for the Social Analytics plugin, or review your installed plugins list via the admin interface or CLI command that lists installed extensions.Affected if The Social Analytics plugin is present in the environment.
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Check for missing anti-CSRF tokens in plugin formsInspect the HTML source of forms and AJAX requests within the Social Analytics plugin settings/pages. Look for the presence of anti-CSRF token fields (such as hidden input fields with names like 'csrf_token', 'nonce', 'token', or '_wpnonce') on state-changing operations like saving settings, updating analytics data, or modifying content.Affected if Forms and state-changing requests in the plugin lack anti-CSRF token parameters.
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Verify stored XSS payloads in plugin data storageQuery the database tables used by the Social Analytics plugin (look for tables containing 'social', 'analytics', or plugin-specific prefixes). Inspect stored records for suspicious HTML/JavaScript patterns in fields that should contain plain text, analytics data, or user display names.Affected if Database records contain unescaped HTML tags, script tags, or event handler attributes (onerror, onload, onclick) in fields used by the plugin.
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Compare installed plugin version to any available updatesCheck the installed Social Analytics plugin version through your CMS admin panel or by reading the plugin's main file header (version field). Compare against the latest version available from the vendor or plugin repository.Affected if An update is available and the current version predates the patch for this vulnerability.
A user is affected if the Social Analytics plugin is installed, lacks anti-CSRF protection on state-changing operations, or contains suspicious stored scripts in its database records.
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 (synchronizer token pattern) on all state-changing operations and apply proper output encoding/sanitization on all user-supplied data before storage and rendering to prevent XSS.
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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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