Themes Vulnerabilities

OceanWP 4.0.9 - 4.1.1 - Ocean Extra Plugin Installation via CSRF

Description

The theme is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the oceanwp_notice_button_click() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install the Ocean Extra plugin via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affects Themes

oceanwp
Fixed in 4.1.2

References

CVE
CVE-2025-8891
URL
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9c6f9a3d-54a6-4405-b42b-37fc8342af96

Classification

Type
CSRF
OWASP top 10
A2: Broken Authentication and Session Management
CWE
CWE-352
CVSS
4.3 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
31c19f8b-7047-4398-8643-2834ad8ebc03

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-08-12 (about 7 months ago)
Added
2025-08-12 (about 7 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-08-12 (about 7 months ago)

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