CVE-2025-9888: Maspik <= 2.5.6 - 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: 2025-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Maspik – Ultimate Spam Protection plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the clear_log function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to clear all spam logs via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

yonifre Maspik – Ultimate Spam Protection: through 2.5.6

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-forms-anti-spam/tags/2.5.5/admin/partials/maspik-log.php#L12
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3357602%40contact-forms-anti-spam&new=3357602%40contact-forms-anti-spam&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://research.cleantalk.org/CVE-2025-9888
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b9b18739-67ed-4cb0-9577-eb60bc84bbeb?source=cve

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