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CVE-2025-8481: Blog Designer For Elementor – Post Slider, Post Carousel, Post Grid <= 1.1.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

• 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: 2025-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Blog Designer For Elementor – Post Slider, Post Carousel, Post Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 1.1.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the bdfe_install_activate_rswpbs_only function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install the 'rs-wp-books-showcase' plugin via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• mdimran41 Blog Designer For Elementor – Post Slider, Post Carousel, Post Grid: through 1.1.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-designer-for-elementor/tags/1.1.7/inc/import-books-from-amazon-notice/import-books-from-amazon-notice.php#L109
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b8f31f8e-03a0-436c-bfa3-bc41d70e8e2a?source=cve

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