CVE-2025-24289
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 · uneditedA Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) leading to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the UCRM Client Signup Plugin (v1.3.4 and earlier) could allow privilege escalation if an Administrator is tricked into visiting a crafted malicious page. The plugin is disabled by default.
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-to-XSS chain in UCRM Client Signup Plugin allows an attacker to trick an authenticated Administrator into executing malicious JavaScript by visiting a crafted page, potentially achieving privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists because the plugin lacks proper CSRF protection, enabling attackers to forge requests that trigger persistent XSS.
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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
- High
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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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Verify if UCRM Client Signup Plugin is installedLocate the plugin in the UCRM plugin directory or admin panel plugin list. Check for files named 'client-signup', 'signup-plugin', or similar in the plugins folder.Affected if The plugin files are present on the system
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Check if the Client Signup Plugin is enabledIn UCRM admin panel, navigate to Plugins or Settings > Plugins. Verify the status/checkbox for the Client Signup Plugin.Affected if The plugin shows as enabled, active, or installed with status 'active'
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Confirm admin authentication configurationReview admin session settings and verify if admin accounts exist and have active sessions that could be exploited via CSRF.Affected if Authenticated administrator accounts are present and the plugin is enabled
If the UCRM Client Signup Plugin is installed AND enabled with authenticated admin users present, the environment is vulnerable to the CSRF-to-XSS chain described in this CVE.
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 dataKeep the plugin disabled unless explicitly required; if enabled, update to a patched version once available and implement anti-CSRF tokens with proper output encoding. Given the plugin is disabled by default, prioritize verifying disabled status across deployments.
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