Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 4.4.10
- Affected Version
<= 4.4.9- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2025-24568
At a glance
CVE-2025-24568 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Starter Templates WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.4.9. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.4.10; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Rafie Muhammad.
Vulnerability Overview
The Starter Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 4.4.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in Starter Templates <= 4.4.9 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.
An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Starter Templates the fix is 4.4.10: builds <= 4.4.9 are affected, anything from 4.4.10 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 4.4.10, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Starter Templates: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Starter Templates 4.4.10 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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