CVE-2025-59568: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the Zoho Flow WordPress plugin, identified as CVE-2025-59568. The vulnerability affects versions up to and including 2.14.1, and was discovered by researcher Bao - BlueRock on August 28, 2025, with public disclosure on September 22, 2025 (Patchstack).

The vulnerability stems from missing or incorrect nonce validation in the zohoflowdeactivate_plugin() function. The severity is rated as Low with a CVSS score of 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N). The vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and falls under the OWASP Top 10 category A1: Broken Access Control (Rapid7, Patchstack).

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. Specifically, unauthenticated attackers could potentially deactivate the plugin by tricking site administrators into performing specific actions, such as clicking on a malicious link (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.14.2 of the Zoho Flow WordPress plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.14.2 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins as an additional security measure (Patchstack).