CVE-2025-9616: PopAd <= 1.0.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2025-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The PopAd plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the PopAd_reset_cookie_time function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset cookie time settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

alobaidi PopAd: through 1.0.4

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/popad/trunk/admin/admin.php#L548
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/842f3cb4-857e-4e9c-b84e-9a47ec65db0d?source=cve

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