WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Emergency Password Reset < 9.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Description

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

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
emergency-password-reset
Fixed in 9.4

References

CVE
CVE-2025-57942
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/emergency-password-reset/vulnerability/wordpress-emergency-password-reset-plugin-9-0-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Nabil Irawan
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
44704ed7-d2e0-4d5b-9951-e65b4c26dedb

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-09-22 (about 9 months ago)
Added
2025-09-26 (about 9 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-11-24 (about 7 months ago)

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