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CVE-2025-12410: SH Contextual Help <= 3.2.1 - 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 SH Contextual Help plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation in the sh_contextual_help_dashboard_widget() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's 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

• samhoamt SH Contextual Help: through 3.2.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sh-contextual-help/tags/3.2.1/functions.php#L400
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sh-contextual-help/tags/3.2.1/functions.php#L402
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sh-contextual-help/tags/3.2.1/functions.php#L417
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/364d6bd8-cdb8-4c99-b610-ba9a3125909e?source=cve

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