CVE-2025-68529

Email Capture <= 3.12.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2025-12-31 00:00
Arif Shaikh

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.12.6
Affected Plugin
Email Marketing Plugin – WP Email Capture
Affected Version
<= 3.12.5
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2025-68529
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At a glance

CVE-2025-68529 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Email Marketing Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.12.5. 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 3.12.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2025, reported by Arif Shaikh.

Vulnerability Overview

The Email Marketing Plugin – WP Email Capture plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action 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 Email Marketing Plugin <= 3.12.5 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. For Email Marketing Plugin the fix is 3.12.6: builds <= 3.12.5 are affected, anything from 3.12.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.12.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Email Marketing Plugin: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Email Marketing Plugin 3.12.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68529https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/99467820-9caf-466c-8421-d6521699e6d6https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68529

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