Vulnerability · Published Mar 6, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-1383Podlove Podcast Publisher <= 4.2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via ajax_transcript_delete Function
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in Podlove Podcast Publisher from eteubert. 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 13% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Podlove Podcast Publisher plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ajax_transcript_delete() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary episode transcripts 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 |
|---|---|---|
| eteubert | Podlove Podcast Publisher | 0 – through 4.2.2 |
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/00a95ae7-3c58-4e5e-aaef-c04d1dacf27f?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/podlove-podcasting-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/4.2.0/lib/modules/transcripts/transcripts.php#L223
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/podlove-podcasting-plugin-for-wordpress/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3246867/