CVE-2025-22784 HIGH

CVE-2025-22784: WordPress Background Control plugin <= 1.0.5 - CSRF to Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability

Vendor Swedish Boy

Product Background Control

Weakness CWE-352 · CSRF

Published January 15, 2025

Last update April 28, 2026

View on NVD All CVEs

CVSS base score

8.6/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction None

Confidentiality None

Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in swedish boy Background Control background-control allows Path Traversal.This issue affects Background Control: from n/a through <= 1.0.5.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Background Control versions 1.0.5 and earlier are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. An attacker can craft a malicious webpage that, when visited by a site administrator, performs unwanted actions on the site without the admin's knowledge or consent. The vulnerability requires no authentication and affects all users regardless of their role.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Perform unwanted actions on the site by tricking an admin into visiting a malicious webpage.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

Administrators could unknowingly trigger harmful actions (configuration changes, data deletion) by visiting a malicious link.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

Site admin must visit a webpage controlled by the attacker; no authentication required from the attacker.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

January 15, 2025 CVE published

April 28, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22784 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html AskarLabs — CWE-352 write-up Cross-Site Request Forgery

Related vulnerabilities