CVE-2025-14999: Latest Tabs <= 1.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin's Settings Update

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-01-07 · updated 2026-10-07
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Latest Tabs plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the settings update handler in admin-page.php. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify 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

kentothemes Latest Tabs: through 1.5

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kento-latest-tabs/trunk/admin-page.php#L7
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/837f49e6-dcba-4451-bbbe-14890ab87207?source=cve

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