CVE-2025-12401: Label Plugins <= 0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 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: 2025-11-04 · updated 2026-10-18
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Label Plugins plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the label_plugins_options() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

theode Label Plugins: through 0.5

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/label-plugins/tags/0.5/lp_admin_page.php#L35
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/label-plugins/tags/0.5/lp_admin_page.php#L37
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/label-plugins/tags/0.5/lp_admin_page.php#L70
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/843cc5e7-7820-409c-8de0-bd70245811cd?source=cve

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