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CVE-2025-1305: NewsBlogger <= 0.2.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Plugin Installation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The NewsBlogger theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the newsblogger_install_and_activate_plugin() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files and achieve remote code execution via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• spicethemes NewsBlogger: before 0.2.5.5 — fixed in 0.2.5.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: spicethemes NewsBlogger 0.2.5.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2/functions.php#L440
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=269615%40newsblogger&new=269615%40newsblogger&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7b2cac27-4a36-490f-b2d8-3c6f32843a38?source=cve

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