Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)Weakness · CWE-352

CVE-2025-23532

HIGH · 8.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-01-16
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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95/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges

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 · unedited
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Regios MyAnime Widget myanime-widget allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects MyAnime Widget: from n/a through <= 1.0.

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 confidence

CSRF vulnerability in Regios MyAnime Widget WordPress plugin (version <= 1.0) allows privilege escalation. The lack of proper CSRF token validation on sensitive actions permits attackers to trick authenticated administrators into unknowingly executing privileged operations.

MitigationImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all state-changing operations, add SameSite cookie attributes, and validate Origin/Referer headers for all admin actions.

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CVSS 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 checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Locate the Regios MyAnime Widget plugin files
    Check the wp-content/plugins/ directory for a folder named 'myanime-widget', 'regios-myanime-widget', or similar. Alternatively, log into the WordPress admin dashboard and navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins to verify if the plugin is listed.
    Affected if The plugin is installed and active on the WordPress site.
  2. Determine the installed plugin version
    If the plugin is found, open the main PHP file (usually named myanime-widget.php or similar in the plugin folder) and locate the plugin header comment which contains the 'Version:' field. Compare this version number to 1.0.
    Affected if The version listed is 1.0 or lower.
  3. Inspect admin action handlers for CSRF protection
    Open the main plugin PHP file(s) and search for admin action hooks (such as 'admin_init', 'wp_ajax_*', or form processing handlers that perform state-changing operations like saving options, updating settings, or modifying user roles). Examine whether these handlers verify a nonce or CSRF token before executing sensitive operations.
    Affected if State-changing admin actions exist that do not call wp_verify_nonce(), check_admin_referer(), or similar nonce verification functions.
  4. Identify privilege escalation endpoints
    Look for code that handles user role changes, capability modifications, user creation, or other administrative-level operations. Check if these functions validate the user's authentication and authorization without requiring a CSRF token.
    Affected if The plugin contains functionality that modifies user privileges or roles and does not validate CSRF tokens.

The site is affected if the Regios MyAnime Widget plugin is installed with version 1.0 or lower and its admin action handlers lack nonce/CSRF token validation.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Implement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all state-changing operations, add SameSite cookie attributes, and validate Origin/Referer headers for all admin actions.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation4.0 h
  • Implementation8.0 h
  • Testing4.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
18.0 hours of engineering $3,200
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