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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-9897
CVE-2025-9897:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The AP Background plugin for WordPress contains a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-9897, affecting all versions up to and including 3.8.2. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Wordfence on October 3, 2025 (NVD CVE).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from missing or incorrect nonce validation in the advParallaxBackAdminSaveSlider function. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (Wordfence).
Impact
If successfully exploited, the vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to create or modify background sliders through forged requests. The impact is limited to integrity (I:L), with no direct effect on confidentiality or availability of the system (NVD CVE).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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