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CVE-2025-9617

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-9617 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting all versions of the Publish approval plugin for WordPress up to and including 1.1. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to modify plugin settings by tricking a site administrator into clicking a malicious link, due to missing nonce validation. With a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to unauthorized modification of plugin configurations. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
EvidentlycubePublish Approval
>= 0, <= 1.1CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
3.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0014 is in the 0th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/publish-approval/trunk/src/actions/HandleOptionsSave.php
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e34ac4aa-65c5-43d7-9b77-d4c6068722f1