CVE-2025-9618

Published: Aug 30, 2025Modified: Sep 2, 2025

4.3

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 1.4

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request.

References (2)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/related-posts-lite/tags/1.12/backend/settings.php#L114

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec3667ac-1d1f-4faf-923c-7e55c03db3da?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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