CVE-2025-14164: Quran Gateway <= 1.5 - 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: 2025-12-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Quran Gateway plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.5. This is due to missing nonce validation in the quran_gateway_options function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's display settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

edckwt Quran Gateway: through 1.5

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-gateway/tags/1.5/admin.php#L457
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-gateway/trunk/admin.php#L457
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3e16da38-709a-4b9a-9f00-efe8459a1318?source=cve

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