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CVE-2025-2163: Zoorum Comments <= 0.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2025-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Zoorum Comments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the zoorum_set_options() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• Zoorum Comments: through 0.9

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zoorum-comments/tags/0.9/zoorum-comments-admin.php#L18
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zoorum-comments/tags/0.9/zoorum-comments-admin.php#L38
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/zoorum-comments/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2b58fb0f-c7ac-4ee6-84f1-ac14617a7c2b?source=cve

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