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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-46520
CVE-2025-46520:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the Related Posts via Taxonomies WordPress plugin, affecting versions through 1.0.1. The vulnerability was disclosed on April 24, 2025, and was assigned identifier CVE-2025-46520. This security issue allows attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks through CSRF (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.1 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and requires no authentication to exploit (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication, potentially leading to stored XSS attacks (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The issue affects all versions through 1.0.1 of the Related Posts via Taxonomies plugin (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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