CVE-2025-14469
Theme Editor <= 3.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to CSS Modification
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Theme Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the ms_update AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify child theme CSS styles via a forged request granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ≤ 3.1
References (4)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1dd4e39a-9b2f-4728-b026-2dee60257c46?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/theme-editor/trunk/includes/classes/ms_theme_editor_controller.php#L60 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/theme-editor/trunk/includes/classes/ms_theme_editor_controller.php#L13 (opens in a new tab)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-editor/#developers (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)
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