CVE-2025-12587: Peer Publish <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

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: 2025-11-25 · updated 2026-10-18
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Peer Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to missing nonce validation on the website management pages. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add, modify, or delete website configurations via a forged request granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

webgarh Peer Publish: through 1.0

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/peer-publish/tags/1.0/admin/admin-pages/newwebsite.php#L17
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/peer-publish/tags/1.0/admin/admin-pages/websites.php#L20
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fffa6c31-8da0-48d7-b603-64f50950787b?source=cve

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