CVE-2025-7842

MEDIUM

Silencesoft RSS Reader <= 0.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via Missing Nonce Validation

Title source: llm

Description

The Silencesoft RSS Reader plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'sil_rss_edit_page' page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete RSS feeds via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Product

https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-rss-reader/

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8e688654-8e21-48e8-a497-06812f3be9fb?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3

EPSS 0.0012

EPSS Percentile 2.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-352

Status published

Products (1)

silence/Silencesoft RSS Reader < 0.6

Published Aug 23, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026