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

CVE-2025-23861

HIGH · 7.1 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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78/100
Remediation priority · High
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 Zack Katz Debt Calculator debt-calculator allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Debt Calculator: from n/a through <= 1.0.1.

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 · high confidence

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Debt Calculator WordPress plugin versions through 1.0.1 allows attackers to induce authenticated users to perform unintended state-changing actions via malicious requests, with CVSS 7.1 indicating high severity due to the ability to manipulate user sessions.

MitigationImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all state-changing operations (forms, AJAX endpoints), validate Origin/Referer headers, and set SameSite attribute on session cookies to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks.

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From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

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

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  1. Confirm Debt Calculator plugin is installed
    In WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and search for 'Debt Calculator', or check the /wp-content/plugins/ directory for a debt-calculator folder
    Affected if The Debt Calculator plugin is present in the WordPress installation
  2. Identify the installed plugin version
    In Plugins page, click 'View Details' on Debt Calculator plugin to display the version number, or read version from the plugin's main PHP file header
    Affected if The version is 1.0.1 or any version below 1.0.1 (the vulnerability affects through version 1.0.1)
  3. Verify if state-changing forms lack nonce protection
    Examine the plugin's PHP files for form handlers and AJAX callbacks. Search for 'wp_nonce_field', 'wp_verify_nonce', or 'check_ajax_referer' functions. Check if forms generating state-changing requests (settings changes, data submissions) include nonce tokens
    Affected if State-changing forms or AJAX endpoints do not implement nonce verification (no wp_nonce_field or wp_verify_nonce calls found)
  4. Check for Origin/Referer header validation
    Review plugin PHP code for server-side validation of $_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'] or $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] headers before processing state-changing requests
    Affected if No Origin or Referer header validation is performed before processing sensitive operations

You are affected if the Debt Calculator plugin is installed with version 1.0.1 or below AND the plugin's state-changing operations lack anti-CSRF nonce validation on forms or AJAX endpoints.

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 (forms, AJAX endpoints), validate Origin/Referer headers, and set SameSite attribute on session cookies to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation3.0 h
  • Implementation6.0 h
  • Testing3.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
14.0 hours of engineering $2,490
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