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CVE-2025-12188: Posts Navigation Links for Sections and Headings - Free by WP Masters <= 1.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-04 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Posts Navigation Links for Sections and Headings – Free by WP Masters 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 or incorrect nonce validation on the 'wpm_navigation_links_settings' page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• wpmasterscom Posts Navigation Links for Sections and Headings – Free by WP Masters: through 1.0.1

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-navigation-links-for-sections-and-headings-free-by-wp-masters/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05f73a26-f637-4a1a-9f8c-98be8a146f00?source=cve

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