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CVE-2025-11497: Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Manipulation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-10-25 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Advanced Database Cleaner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the aDBc_prepare_elements_to_clean() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to alter the keep last setting via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. CVE-2025-64357 is a duplicate of this issue.

Affected products

• Advanced Database Cleaner: through 3.1.6

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3382581%40advanced-database-cleaner&new=3382581%40advanced-database-cleaner&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f4635ac-2ce6-4135-8d2b-d03b42860f05?source=cve

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