CVE-2025-13684
ARK Related Posts <= 2.19 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.3 Medium
- Published
- Dec 5, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Nov 25, 2025
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ARK Related Postsalexkar |
|
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/
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