OceanWP <= 4.0.9 - 4.1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Ocean Extra Plugin Installation

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-8891
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published August 12, 2025
Last Updated August 21, 2025
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

The OceanWP theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions 4.0.9 to 4.1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the oceanwp_notice_button_click() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install the Ocean Extra plugin 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 oceanwp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 4.0.9 - 4.1.1
Patched Version
  • 4.1.2
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