ServerBuddy by PluginBuddy.com <= 1.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to PHP Object Injection
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- ServerBuddy by PluginBuddy.com
- Affected Version
<= 1.0.5- CVSS
- 7.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2025-49895
At a glance
CVE-2025-49895 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the ServerBuddy by PluginBuddy.com WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.5. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed August 2025, reported by Nguyen Xuan Chien.
Vulnerability Overview
The ServerBuddy by PluginBuddy.com plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject PHP Objects 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, and no privileges on the target site. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in ServerBuddy by PluginBuddy.com <= 1.0.5 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. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for ServerBuddy by PluginBuddy.com yet, so installs running <= 1.0.5 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
Remediation
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to ServerBuddy by PluginBuddy.com: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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