CVE-2025-24711 in Popup Box Plugin
Summary
by MITRE • 01/24/2025
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Wow-Company Popup Box allows Cross Site Request Forgery. This issue affects Popup Box: from n/a through 3.2.4.
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Analysis
by VulDB Data Team • 02/08/2025
The CVE-2025-24711 vulnerability represents a critical cross-site request forgery flaw within the Wow-Company Popup Box plugin, a widely used WordPress component for displaying promotional popups and notifications. This vulnerability resides in the plugin's handling of user requests and lacks proper validation mechanisms to ensure that requests originate from legitimate sources within the same origin. The affected version range spans from an unknown initial state through version 3.2.4, indicating that the flaw has persisted across multiple iterations of the plugin's development cycle.
The technical implementation of this CSRF vulnerability stems from the absence of anti-forgery tokens or proper origin validation within the plugin's administrative interfaces and AJAX endpoints. When authenticated administrators interact with the popup box configuration features, the system fails to verify that the incoming requests are genuine and authorized by the legitimate user. This weakness creates a scenario where malicious actors can craft deceptive requests that appear to come from authenticated users, potentially enabling unauthorized modifications to popup configurations, content manipulation, or even complete administrative takeover of affected WordPress installations.
The operational impact of this vulnerability extends beyond simple data manipulation as it can facilitate more severe security breaches within WordPress environments. Attackers exploiting this CSRF flaw can potentially alter popup settings to redirect users to malicious domains, inject harmful scripts into popups, or modify existing popup content to spread phishing attacks. The vulnerability's persistence across multiple versions suggests that the underlying design flaw has not been adequately addressed in the plugin's codebase, leaving countless WordPress sites exposed to potential exploitation. This issue particularly affects websites that rely heavily on popup functionality for marketing campaigns, user engagement, or security notifications, making the attack surface more significant for businesses and organizations.
Organizations should immediately implement mitigations including updating to the latest available version of the Wow-Company Popup Box plugin once a patched release becomes available, implementing additional authentication layers through custom middleware, and conducting comprehensive security audits of all installed WordPress plugins. Network-level protections such as web application firewalls can provide additional defense-in-depth measures, while security teams should monitor for suspicious administrative activities that might indicate exploitation attempts. The vulnerability aligns with CWE-352, which specifically addresses cross-site request forgery weaknesses, and represents a direct violation of the principle of least privilege and proper input validation. From an ATT&CK framework perspective, this vulnerability maps to techniques involving privilege escalation and persistence through web application exploitation, potentially enabling adversaries to establish long-term presence within affected environments through manipulated popup content that can serve as a delivery mechanism for further attacks.