ARK Related Posts <= 2.19 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-13684
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published December 4, 2025
Last Updated December 11, 2025
Researcher Muhammad Nur Ibnu Hubab (Ibnu)
Description

The ARK Related Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 2.19. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ark_rp_options_page function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's configuration settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ark-relatedpost (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.19
Patched Version
  • 2.20
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