GSheetConnector For Gravity Forms <= 1.3.23 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Plugin Activation/Deactivation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.3.24
- Affected Version
<= 1.3.23- CVSS
- 2.4Low
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2025-8606
At a glance
CVE-2025-8606 is a low-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the GSheetConnector WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.23. It carries a CVSS score of 2.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.3.24; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2025, reported by wesley (wcraft).
Vulnerability Overview
The GSheetConnector For Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions less than, or equal to, 1.3.23. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the activate_plugin and deactivate_plugin functions. This makes it possible for attackers to trick authenticated administrators into activating or deactivating specified plugins via a forged request, such as clicking on a malicious link or visiting a compromised page.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in GSheetConnector <= 1.3.23 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 GSheetConnector the fix is 1.3.24: builds <= 1.3.23 are affected, anything from 1.3.24 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.3.24, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to GSheetConnector: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: GSheetConnector 1.3.24 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Same weakness class
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