CVE-2025-31038
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in Essential Marketer Essential Breadcrumbs WordPress plugin, identified as CVE-2025-31038. The vulnerability affects versions through 1.1.1 and was disclosed on April 9, 2025. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher LVT-tholv2k and allows potential privilege escalation attacks (Patchstack, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (High) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and requires user interaction to be exploited. The attack vector is network-accessible with low attack complexity and requires no privileges (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication level. This could potentially lead to privilege escalation within the WordPress installation (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The issue affects Essential Breadcrumbs versions through 1.1.1, and no patched version has been released (Patchstack).

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