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CVE-2024-13852: Option Editor <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Options Update

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Option Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 1.0. This is due to missing nonce validation on the plugin_page() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

Affected products

• backie Option Editor: through 1.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/option-editor/trunk/option-editor.php#L70
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/option-editor/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50adbe1d-9d79-4015-9e09-2166f97efc47?source=cve

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