CVE-2025-5926 Information

Jun 14, 2025 cve

Description

The Link Shield plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to and including 0.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the link_shield_menu_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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/link-shield/trunk/link-shield.php#L24 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7e577828-4368-4781-877b-badb4dc50763?source=cve

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.1

CNNVD-202506-1746 (Published: 2025-06-13)

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