Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in iThoughts Advanced Code Editor for WordPress
CVE-2025-7835

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress

Vendor
CVE Published:
24 July 2025

What is CVE-2025-7835?

The iThoughts Advanced Code Editor plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to inadequate nonce validation on the 'ithoughts_ace_update_options' AJAX action. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to manipulate plugin settings by convincing an administrator to execute a malicious request, such as clicking a specially crafted link.

Affected Version(s)

iThoughts Advanced Code Editor * <= 1.2.10

References

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

Nabil Irawan
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CVE-2025-7835 : Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in iThoughts Advanced Code Editor for WordPress