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CVE-2025-49865: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in Helmut Wandl Advanced Settings plugin affecting versions through 3.0.1. The vulnerability was discovered by Mika and publicly disclosed on June 12, 2025, with CVE identifier CVE-2025-49865 (Wiz, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability allows Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks, which could enable malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 4.3 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N (Wiz, NVD).

Impact

The security issue has been classified as having a low severity impact. It could allow attackers to execute unauthorized actions on behalf of authenticated users when they visit specially crafted malicious web pages (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 3.0.2 of the Advanced Settings plugin. Users are recommended to update to version 3.0.2 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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