CVE-2023-25489

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-25489 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting versions 2.0.0 and earlier of the Jeff Sherk Update Theme and Plugins from Zip File plugin for WordPress. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating that an unauthenticated attacker could exploit it with low complexity via user interaction, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:iwebss:update_theme_and_plugins_from_zip_file::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.21%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

12.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 11th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/update-theme-and-plugins-from-zip-file/wordpress-update-theme-and-plugins-from-zip-file-plugin-2-0-0-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability

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