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CVE-2025-14903: Simple Crypto Shortcodes <= 1.0.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin 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: 2026-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Simple Crypto Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.2. This is due to missing nonce validation on the scs_backend function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update 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

• stefanristic Simple Crypto Shortcodes: through 1.0.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-crypto-shortcodes/tags/1.0.2/simple_crypto_shortcodes.php#L46
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-crypto-shortcodes/tags/1.0.2/simple_crypto_shortcodes.php#L54
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/18bcd2ad-1989-4e2b-b82e-fddc4201c5a6?source=cve

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