vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: video-embedder: CVE-2025-31458: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 28, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

The Video Embedder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Solution

video-embedder-plugin-cve-2025-31458
Title
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