# CVE-2025-24717: WordPress Modal Window Plugin <= 6.1.4 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Settings Change vulnerability

> Attackers can trick authenticated users into changing plugin settings via CSRF, requiring an upgrade to the latest version.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-63hg-gf2w-9gf3

## What is CVE-2025-24717?

CVE-2025-24717 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wow-Company Modal Window, published on 24 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Wow-Company Modal Window modal-window allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Modal Window: from n/a through <= 6.1.4.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24717?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wow-Company Modal Window.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-24717?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24717 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-24717 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24717 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Wow-Company Modal Window

- [CVE-2021-25051](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25051/): Modal Window < 5.2.2 - RFI leading to RCE via CSRF (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-43346](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43346/): WordPress Modal Window – create popup modal window plugin <= 6.0.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2025-0897](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0897/): Modal Window <= 6.1.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via iframeBox Shortcode (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-2457](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2457/): Cross-site scripting in Modal Window – create popup modal window (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2023-5161](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5161/): Modal Window <= 5.3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode (medium 6.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24717 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24717 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wow-Company Modal Window, published on 24 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24717 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Wow-Company Modal Window. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24717/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24717/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24717
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24717
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24717

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24717/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.