CVE-2025-13970 (GCVE-0-2025-13970)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-13 00:03 – Updated: 2025-12-15 15:36
VLAI
Title
OpenPLC_V3 Cross-Site Request Forgery
Summary
OpenPLC_V3 is vulnerable to a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack due to the absence of proper CSRF validation. This issue allows an unauthenticated attacker to trick a logged-in administrator into visiting a maliciously crafted link, potentially enabling unauthorized modification of PLC settings or the upload of malicious programs which could lead to significant disruption or damage to connected systems.
Severity
8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenPLC_V3 OpenPLC_V3 Affected: 0 , < pull request #310 (custom)
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Credits
Muhammad Ali and Anthony Marrongelli of University of Central Florida (UCF) reported this vulnerability to CISA.
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