Plugin Central <= 2.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Deletion

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-46439
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published April 24, 2025
Last Updated April 30, 2025
Researcher Nguyen Xuan Chien
Description

The Plugin Central plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php), 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 plugin-central (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.1
Patched Version
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