Comment Reply NotificationWordPress extension · Comment Reply Notification Project
CVE-2023-25051
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Denishua Comment Reply Notification plugin <= 1.4 versions.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Denishua Comment Reply Notification WordPress plugin versions 1.4 and below allows attackers to forge authenticated requests by tricking logged-in users into visiting malicious pages, potentially enabling unauthorized actions such as modifying notification settings or triggering unintended comment reply actions.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Comment Reply NotificationWordPress extension
<= 1.4CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Locate the plugin installationCheck your WordPress wp-content/plugins/ directory for a folder related to 'comment-reply-notification' or 'denishua' - inspect the main plugin PHP file to find the Version headerAffected if The plugin folder exists and the Version header shows 1.4 or lower
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Verify installed versionRead the version number from the plugin's main PHP file header or compare against the plugin repository versionAffected if Version is 1.4 or lower (any version in the range 0.x to 1.4)
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Identify state-changing admin actionsExamine the plugin's admin settings page (usually under Settings or Comments in wp-admin) for forms that modify notification settings or trigger comment reply actionsAffected if Forms exist that change settings without requiring nonce verification
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Check for nonce implementationOpen the plugin's main PHP file and search for 'wp_nonce_field', 'check_admin_referer', or 'verify_nonce' function calls around form submissionsAffected if No nonce verification is found on state-changing operations (forms submit without token validation)
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Confirm CSRF vulnerability existsReview the HTML source of the plugin's admin page - look for forms that submit to admin-post.php or similar endpoints without a hidden nonce fieldAffected if Forms lack hidden input fields containing wpnonce or _wpnonce tokens
If the plugin is installed at version 1.4 or below and admin forms lack WordPress nonce tokens, the environment is vulnerable to CVE-2023-25051.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataPlugin vendor should implement anti-CSRF tokens (WordPress nonces) on all state-changing operations; users should update to a patched version once available or disable the plugin until fixed.
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Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation8.0 h
- Testing4.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2023-25051 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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