CVE-2025-9618 (GCVE-0-2025-9618)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-30 01:45
Modified
2025-09-02 19:26
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Summary
The Related Posts Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.12. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the settings update functionality. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify plugin settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/related-posts-lite/tags/1.12/backend/settings.php#L114
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec3667ac-1d1f-4faf-923c-7e55c03db3da?source=cve
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpdreams Related Posts Lite Version: *   ≤ 1.12
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