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

CVE-2025-46530

HIGH · 7.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-04-24
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 HuangYe WuDeng Hacklog Remote Attachment hacklog-remote-attachment allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Hacklog Remote Attachment: from n/a through <= 1.3.2.

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 the Hacklog Remote Attachment WordPress plugin (versions <=1.3.2) allows authenticated administrators to be tricked into submitting malicious requests that inject persistent XSS payloads into the application, which then executes when other users view the stored content.

MitigationImplement WordPress nonces and CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations, validate the Origin and Referer headers on POST requests, and sanitize/validate all user-supplied input before storage and output.

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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 checks

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

  1. Check if Hacklog Remote Attachment plugin is installed
    Navigate to WordPress admin > Plugins, or inspect /wp-content/plugins/ directory for the hacklog-remote-attachment folder
    Affected if The plugin folder exists in the WordPress installation
  2. Identify the installed plugin version
    In WordPress admin > Plugins, find Hacklog Remote Attachment and read the version number from the plugin description; alternatively, check the main plugin PHP file for the 'Version' header in the plugin comment block
    Affected if Version displayed is 1.3.2 or lower
  3. Verify the plugin is active
    In WordPress admin > Plugins, confirm the plugin shows as 'Active' under the plugin status
    Affected if Plugin is currently activated on the site
  4. Confirm no custom CSRF protections exist in plugin code
    Inspect the plugin's PHP files (especially those handling form submissions or admin actions) and search for wp_nonce_field, wp_nonce_url, or check_admin_referer function calls; absence of these indicates vulnerability
    Affected if No WordPress nonce verification functions are present in the plugin's action handlers

If Hacklog Remote Attachment is installed, active, and version 1.3.2 or lower, the environment is affected by this CSRF-to-persistent-XSS vulnerability.

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 WordPress nonces and CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations, validate the Origin and Referer headers on POST requests, and sanitize/validate all user-supplied input before storage and output.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation2.0 h
  • Implementation4.0 h
  • Testing3.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
11.0 hours of engineering $1,930
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