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).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 94.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

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)

VendorProductVersions
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

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