CVE-2025-9617

MEDIUM

Publish approval < 1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via Missing Nonce Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-352
Status published
Products (1)
evidentlycube/Publish approval < 1.1
Published Sep 11, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026