Unauthorized administrative actions via missing nonce validation
Published Apr 1, 2025 · Updated Apr 28, 2026
Cross-site request forgery in Query Wrangler 1.5.54 and earlier allows remote attackers to trigger unauthorized administrative actions. Affected administrative routes process state-changing requests without validating a WordPress nonce, allowing a forged request to execute with the visiting administrator’s session. Exploitation requires an authenticated site administrator to visit attacker-controlled content; published sources do not identify the specific administrative action.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in Query Wrangler 1.5.54 and earlier allows remote attackers to trigger unauthorized administrative actions. Affected administrative routes process state-changing requests without validating a WordPress nonce, allowing a forged request to execute with the visiting administrator’s session. Exploitation requires an authenticated site administrator to visit attacker-controlled content; published sources do not identify the specific administrative action.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-31779
- Published
- Apr 1, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 28, 2026
- Vendor
- Jonathan Daggerhart
- Product
- Query Wrangler
- Classifications
- CWE-352, CAPEC-62
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Apr 1, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 28, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=1.5.54 changes=[{"at":"1.5.55","status":"unaffected"}]
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