CVE-2025-9617CWE-352

Publish approval <= 1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Medium · published September 11, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Publish approval plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the publish_save_option 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00147 · 3.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Published
2025-09-11T07:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 07:25Z
    Publish approval <= 1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
    cvelistv5