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CVE-2025-9617: Publish approval <= 1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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 Publish approval plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the publish_save_option function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify plugin settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• evidentlycube Publish approval: through 1.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publish-approval/trunk/src/actions/HandleOptionsSave.php#L6
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e34ac4aa-65c5-43d7-9b77-d4c6068722f1?source=cve

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