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Description

The Publish approval plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the publish_save_option function. 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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-08-28 | Published 2025-09-11 | Updated 2025-09-11 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2025-09-10:Disclosed

Credits

Sandeep finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-65c5-43d7-9b77-d4c6068722f1?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../actions/HandleOptionsSave.php

cve.org (CVE-2025-9617)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-9617)

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