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CVE-2025-64262: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability has been identified in the Auto Prune Posts WordPress plugin, affecting versions up to and including 3.0.0. The vulnerability was discovered on November 8, 2025, and was assigned CVE-2025-64262. The issue stems from missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'forcerun' action (Rapid7).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 6.5 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) (NVD, Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a prune action by tricking site administrators into performing specific actions, such as clicking on a malicious link. This could lead to unauthorized actions being executed under the administrator's authentication context (Rapid7).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 3.1.0 of the Auto Prune Posts plugin. Users are advised to update to version 3.1.0 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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