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CVE-2025-12416: Pagerank Tools <= 1.1.5 - 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 Pagerank Tools plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.5. This is due to missing nonce validation on the pr_save_settings() function and insufficient input sanitization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to 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. The injected scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the plugin's settings page.

Affected products

• Pagerank tools: through 1.1.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pagerank-tools/tags/1.1.5/functions.inc.php#L176
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pagerank-tools/tags/1.1.5/functions.inc.php#L192
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/177900d6-c52e-4ac4-a74d-412e453f9d05?source=cve

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