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

CVE-2025-48321

HIGH · 7.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-08-28
Mitigation only
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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 dyiosah Ultimate twitter profile widget ultimate-twitter-profile-widget allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Ultimate twitter profile widget: from n/a through <= 1.0.

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

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in dyiosah's Ultimate Twitter Profile Widget allows attackers to craft malicious requests that result in Stored XSS. The plugin lacks proper CSRF protection (anti-CSRF tokens/nonces), enabling attackers to trick authenticated administrators into executing unwanted actions that inject malicious scripts into the widget output.

MitigationImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all form submissions and AJAX actions within the plugin, validate the Origin/Referer headers, and sanitize all user-supplied input before rendering in the Twitter profile widget.

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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 checks

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

  1. Verify the plugin is installed
    Check your WordPress installation's wp-content/plugins directory for a folder named 'ultimate-twitter-profile-widget' or 'ultimate-twitter-widget', or look for the plugin in the WordPress admin under Plugins > Installed Plugins.
    Affected if The plugin 'Ultimate Twitter Profile Widget' by dyiosah is present in the WordPress installation.
  2. Identify the installed version
    In WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and locate the Ultimate Twitter Profile Widget. The version number is displayed below the plugin name. Alternatively, check the plugin's main PHP file header for the 'Version' tag.
    Affected if The installed version matches the affected release of the plugin (any version lacking CSRF protection).
  3. Inspect admin forms for CSRF protection
    Navigate to the plugin's settings page in WordPress admin (usually under Settings or Appearance > Widgets). View the page source (right-click > View Page Source) and search for 'wp_nonce', 'nonce', or '_wpnonce' fields within any form tags.
    Affected if No nonce fields (wp_nonce, _wpnonce) are found in the plugin's admin forms.
  4. Check AJAX actions for nonces
    Examine the plugin's JavaScript files (look in the plugin's js/ folder) for AJAX calls. Look for admin-ajax.php requests and verify if a nonce parameter is being passed with each request.
    Affected if AJAX requests in the plugin do not include a nonce parameter for CSRF validation.
  5. Verify widget output for XSS vectors
    Access the public-facing page where the Twitter widget is displayed. View the page source and examine the rendered HTML. Check if user-supplied content (usernames, display names) is properly escaped or appears as raw HTML.
    Affected if User-supplied Twitter profile data renders as unescaped HTML or JavaScript in the widget output.

If the Ultimate Twitter Profile Widget is installed and its admin forms or AJAX actions lack nonce verification, the environment is vulnerable to CVE-2025-48321.

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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 form submissions and AJAX actions within the plugin, validate the Origin/Referer headers, and sanitize all user-supplied input before rendering in the Twitter profile widget.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation2.0 h
  • Implementation4.0 h
  • Testing2.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
10.0 hours of engineering $1,780
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