CVE-2025-9618 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-9618

Related Posts Lite <= 1.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Vulnerability Description

The Related Posts Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.12. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the settings update functionality. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify plugin settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Sandeep

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Related Posts Lite
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 30th, 2025
Last Modified: April 8th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-352

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Initial Access
T1204.001 Malicious Link
Execution
T1098 Account Manipulation
Persistence
T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact