Vulnerability · Published Mar 15, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-2163Zoorum Comments <= 0.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Zoorum Comments from zoorum. 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 8% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Zoorum Comments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the zoorum_set_options() 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| zoorum | Zoorum Comments | 0 – through 0.9 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2b58fb0f-c7ac-4ee6-84f1-ac14617a7c2b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zoorum-comments/tags/0.9/zoorum-comments-admin.php#L18
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zoorum-comments/tags/0.9/zoorum-comments-admin.php#L38
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/zoorum-comments/