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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-1305

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: spicethemes

Product: NewsBlogger

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.06% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 19.86% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-30 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1305
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7b2cac27-4a36-490f-b2d8-3c6f32843a38?source=cve
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2/functions.php#L440
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=269615%40newsblogger&new=269615%40newsblogger&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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