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Publish Approval Vulnerabilities

1 known security issue reported for the Publish Approval WordPress plugin. Most recent disclosed Sep 10, 2025.

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Publish approval <= 1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

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The Publish approval plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the publish_save_option function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify plugin settings via a forged request g...

CVSS:: 5.3
Affected:: up to 1.1
Fix:: No patched version reported
Disclosed:: Sep 10, 2025

CVE-2025-9617 on NVD →

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