CVE-2025-24549
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 Mahbubur Rahman Post Meta post-meta allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Post Meta: from n/a through <= 1.0.9.
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 Post Meta WordPress plugin (version <=1.0.9) by Mahbubur Rahman allows attackers to trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions. The CSRF flaw enables Reflected XSS attacks, where malicious scripts are injected through vulnerable parameters and reflected back to the user, potentially leading to session hijacking or administrative action execution.
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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
- 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 checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify Post Meta plugin is installedLog into WordPress admin and navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins, or check the /wp-content/plugins/ directory for the post-meta folderAffected if The plugin folder exists and the plugin is active in the WordPress site
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Check installed plugin versionIn WordPress admin, find Post Meta in the plugins list and view the version number displayed under the plugin name, or open post-meta/post-meta.php and read the 'Version' header in the plugin comment blockAffected if The version number is 1.0.9 or lower
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Identify plugin forms and actionsExamine all PHP files in the post-meta plugin directory for form tags, admin_post handlers, and AJAX action hooksAffected if The plugin contains any forms or state-changing operations (POST/GET requests that modify data)
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Inspect for CSRF token implementationSearch plugin PHP files for calls to wp_nonce_field, wp_nonce, check_admin_referer, or check_ajax_refererAffected if No nonce verification functions are found in the plugin code handling form submissions or admin actions
A site is affected if the Post Meta plugin version 1.0.9 or lower is installed and active, and the plugin lacks anti-CSRF nonce protection on its form submissions or admin actions.
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 dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all state-changing operations and apply proper input sanitization plus output encoding to prevent reflected XSS. Update the plugin to the latest version once available.
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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.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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