Cross-Site Request Forgery in Stopwords for Comments Plugin by WordPress
CVE-2025-15376

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Stopwords For Comments
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 January 2026

What is CVE-2025-15376?

The Stopwords for Comments plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) due to inadequate nonce validation in the 'set_stopwords_for_comments' and 'delete_stopwords_for_comments' functions. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to manipulate stopword settings by tricking a site administrator into unknowingly executing a malicious request. As a result, attackers may add or delete stopwords, potentially disrupting website functionality.

Affected Version(s)

Stopwords for comments 0 <= 1.1

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stopwords-for-...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

dayea song
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