NewsBlogger <= 0.2.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Plugin Installation

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-1305
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published April 30, 2025
Last Updated May 1, 2025
Researcher Gibran Abdillah
Description

The NewsBlogger theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the newsblogger_install_and_activate_plugin() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files and achieve remote code execution 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 Theme
Software Slug newsblogger (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 0.2.5.4
Patched Version
  • 0.2.5.5
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