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CVE-2025-14158: Coding Blocks <= 1.1.0 - 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: 2025-12-12 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Coding Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.0. This is due to missing nonce validation on the settings update functionality. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update plugin settings including the theme configuration via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• octagonsimon Coding Blocks: through 1.1.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coding-blocks/tags/1.1.0/admin/pages/settings.php#L11
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coding-blocks/trunk/admin/pages/settings.php#L11
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/coding-blocks/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5a4833de-d530-4bbf-ac28-e5d4b5f68f1e?source=cve

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