CVE-2025-24549 HIGH

CVE-2025-24549: WordPress Post Meta plugin <= 1.0.9 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Vendor Mahbubur Rahman

Product Post Meta

Weakness CWE-352 · CSRF

Published January 31, 2025

Last update May 11, 2026

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CVSS base score

7.1/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction Required

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Mahbubur Rahman Post Meta post-meta allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Post Meta: from n/a through <= 1.0.9.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Post Meta versions 1.0.9 and earlier are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. An attacker can craft a malicious webpage that, when visited by a logged-in site administrator, performs unwanted actions on the site without their knowledge. The attack requires the victim to visit the attacker's page while authenticated. This can lead to unauthorized changes to site data or settings.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

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

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

An attacker can modify site data or settings by exploiting an admin's browser session without their consent.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

Victim must be logged in to the site and visit an attacker-controlled webpage.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

January 31, 2025 CVE published

May 11, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24549 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html AskarLabs — CWE-352 write-up Cross-Site Request Forgery

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