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CVE-2025-26963: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress plugin ClickWhale, affecting versions up to 2.4.3. The vulnerability was reported on January 27, 2025, by researcher Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh from VCI-VNPT and was publicly disclosed on February 23, 2025. This security issue has been assigned CVE-2025-26963 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) issue, identified as CWE-352. It received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability requires no authentication to exploit and falls under the OWASP Top 10 category A7: Identification and Authentication Failures (NVD, Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The severity is considered low to medium, with potential impacts on the integrity and availability of the affected system (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.4.4 of the ClickWhale plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.4.4 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users have the option to enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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