NewsBlogger <= 0.2.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Plugin Installation

Description

The NewsBlogger theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the newsblogger_install_and_activate_plugin() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files and achieve remote code execution via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.40% · top 66% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-352 and its CVEs

Affected products

• spicethemes · NewsBlogger

  • affected ≤ 0.2.5.4

References (3)

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7b2cac27-4a36-490f-b2d8-3c6f32843a38?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2/functions.php#L440 (opens in a new tab)
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=269615%40newsblogger&new=269615%40newsblogger&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2025-1305](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2025-1305.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-1305)

Record last updated 8 Apr 2026, 17:02 UTC.