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CVE-2025-13521: WP Status Notifier <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

• 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: 2026-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The WP Status Notifier plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the settings update functionality. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• fulippo WP Status Notifier: through 1.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-change-status-notifier/tags/1.0/options-page.php#L2
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-change-status-notifier/trunk/options-page.php#L2
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fbffc404-9ea9-4025-8241-2c374b760ca3?source=cve

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