CVE-2025-9623: Admin in English with Switch <= 1.1 - 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: 2025-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Admin in English with Switch 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 enable_eng function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify administrator language settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

dontcare Admin in English with Switch: through 1.1

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-in-english-with-switch/tags/1.1/admin-in-english-with-switch.php#L106
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-in-english-with-switch/tags/1.1/admin-in-english-with-switch.php#L113
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9ffb0980-75f8-4f6b-a0ed-2f65bc5aa103?source=cve

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