CVE-2025-7842 (GCVE-0-2025-7842)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-23 04:25 – Updated: 2025-08-25 17:15
VLAI?
Summary
The Silencesoft RSS Reader plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'sil_rss_edit_page' page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete RSS feeds via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
silence Silencesoft RSS Reader Affected: * , ≤ 0.6 (semver)
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Credits
Nabil Irawan
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