CVE-2025-8669: Customify <= 0.4.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

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: 2025-10-03 · updated 2026-10-12
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Customify theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 0.4.11. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the reset_customize_section function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset theme customization settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

pressmaximum Customify: through 0.4.11

References

https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-8669/
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customify/0.4.11/inc/customizer/class-customizer.php#L55
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/291160/customify/0.4.12/inc/customizer/class-customizer.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a3425d78-1e24-4224-bfdc-a3e11735384f?source=cve
https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-8669/

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