CVE-2025-31390
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 bdoga Social Crowd social-crowd allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Social Crowd: from n/a through <= 0.9.6.1.
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 · high confidenceCSRF vulnerability in bdoga Social Crowd plugin allows attackers to craft malicious requests that, when triggered by authenticated administrators, inject and store XSS payloads into the application. This stored XSS then executes when other users view the compromised 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 bdoga Social Crowd plugin is installedCheck your CMS/plugin manifest, plugin directory, or admin panel for the presence of the bdoga Social Crowd plugin. Common locations: wp-content/plugins/ directory (WordPress), or analogous plugin folders in other CMS platforms.Affected if The plugin is installed and active in the environment
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Check plugin version against available patched releasesLocate the plugin version metadata (usually in plugin header, composer.json, or admin panel plugin list). Compare against any patched version mentioned in security advisories or the plugin vendor release notes.Affected if The installed version predates the patched release and is known to contain the CSRF/XSS vulnerability
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Inspect forms and actions for anti-CSRF token implementationReview the plugin source code for state-changing forms (admin settings, content submission, user input forms). Look for presence of anti-CSRF tokens (nonces, CSRF tokens) in form HTML and corresponding server-side validation. Search for missing token checks on POST/PUT/DELETE endpoints.Affected if State-changing forms lack anti-CSRF tokens or server-side token validation is missing
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Audit stored data for malicious XSS payloadsQuery plugin database tables or content storage for suspicious patterns (script tags, event handlers like onload/onerror, javascript: URIs, encoded payloads). Review any user-submitted content fields the plugin stores or displays.Affected if Stored content contains unsanitized HTML/script tags or known XSS payload patterns that the plugin renders without encoding
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Review server access logs for anomalous requestsSearch web server logs for POST requests to plugin endpoints originating from unexpected sources, or requests containing XSS payload patterns in parameters that correspond to plugin functions.Affected if Logs show requests with XSS payloads being submitted through plugin endpoints, indicating exploitation attempts
The environment is affected if the bdoga Social Crowd plugin is installed, lacks anti-CSRF protections on its forms, or already contains injected XSS payloads in stored data.
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 on all state-changing forms and actions, combined with proper output encoding/sanitization to prevent XSS injection. Update to any available patched version.
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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.
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- 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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