Vulnerability · Published Dec 5, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-13684ARK Related Posts <= 2.19 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in ARK Related Posts from alexkar. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 6% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The ARK Related Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 2.19. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ark_rp_options_page function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's configuration settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| alexkar | ARK Related Posts | 0 – through 2.19 |
Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7eb53a80-89e5-4d8c-a1ba-c272196a3340?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ark-relatedpost/trunk/ark-relatedpost.php#L109
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ark-relatedpost/tags/2.19/ark-relatedpost.php#L109
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3416647/