WP Media Category Management 2.0 - 2.3.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.4.0
- Affected Plugin
- WP Media Category Management
- Affected Version
2.0 – 2.3.3- CVSS
- 6.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2025-0865
At a glance
CVE-2025-0865 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Media Category Management WordPress plugin, affecting versions 2.0 – 2.3.3. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.4.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by lucky_buddy.
Vulnerability Overview
The WP Media Category Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions 2.0 to 2.3.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the wp_mcm_handle_action_settings() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to alter plugin settings, such as the taxonomy used for media, the base slug for media categories, and the default media category 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. A successful exploit has high impact on integrity.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
WP Media Category Management 2.0 – 2.3.3 carries this weakness at wp_mcm_handle_action_settings(), and reaching it 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 WP Media Category Management the fix is 2.4.0: builds 2.0 – 2.3.3 are affected, anything from 2.4.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.4.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to WP Media Category Management: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: WP Media Category Management 2.4.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in WP Media Category Management
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