Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Manipulation

Improper Input Validation
CVE CVE-2025-11497
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published October 24, 2025
Last Updated November 4, 2025
Researcher Bao - BlueRock
Description

The Advanced Database Cleaner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the aDBc_prepare_elements_to_clean() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to alter the keep last setting via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. CVE-2025-64357 is a duplicate of this issue.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-database-cleaner (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1.6
Patched Version
  • 3.1.7
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