CVE-2025-12587

Nov. 25, 2025, 10:16 p.m.

4.3
Medium

Description

The Peer Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to missing nonce validation on the website management pages. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add, modify, or delete website configurations via a forged request granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
peer_publish_plugin
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-352
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/peer-publish/tags/1.0/admin/admin-pages/newwebsite.php#L17
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/peer-publish/tags/1.0/admin/admin-pages/websites.php#L20
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fffa6c31-8da0-48d7-b603-64f50950787b?source=cve

Tags

security@wordfence.com
CWE-352
2025-11-25
CVE-2025-12587

CVSS Score

4.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: NONE

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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Timeline

Published: Nov. 25, 2025, 8:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Nov. 25, 2025, 10:16 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been marked for Analysis. Normally once in this state the CVE will be analyzed by NVD staff within 24 hours.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

*Disclaimer: Some vulnerabilities do not have an associated CPE. To enhance the data, we use AI to infer CPEs based on CVE details. This is an automated process and might not always be accurate.