Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in Silencesoft RSS Reader Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-7842

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Silencesoft Rss Reader
Vendor
CVE Published:
23 August 2025

What is CVE-2025-7842?

The Silencesoft RSS Reader plugin for WordPress suffers from a Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability, allowing unauthorized individuals to execute actions on behalf of authenticated users. This vulnerability arises from inadequate nonce validation on the 'sil_rss_edit_page' endpoint, enabling malicious actors to trick site administrators into executing requests, such as deleting RSS feeds, without their knowledge. All versions up to and including 0.6 are impacted, emphasizing the need for immediate attention and remediation to ensure site security.

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Affected Version(s)

Silencesoft RSS Reader * <= 0.6

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-rss-reader/

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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