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CVE-2025-7842: Silencesoft RSS Reader <= 0.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to RSS Feed Deletion

• 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: 2025-08-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Silencesoft RSS Reader plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'sil_rss_edit_page' page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete RSS feeds via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• Silencesoft RSS Reader: through 0.6

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-rss-reader/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8e688654-8e21-48e8-a497-06812f3be9fb?source=cve

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