CVE-2025-0865WP Media Category Management 2.0 - 2.3.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.28%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 79% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The WP Media Category Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions 2.0 to 2.3.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the wp_mcm_handle_action_settings() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to alter plugin settings, such as the taxonomy used for media, the base slug for media categories, and the default media category via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 79% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
debaat · WP Media Category Management
- affected 2.0 – ≤ 2.3.3
References
References6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0d42ca2f-f061-4cd1-812b-46d42c440498?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-media-category-management/trunk/include/admin/class-WP_MCM_Settings.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-media-category-management/tags/2.3.3/include/admin/class-WP_MCM_Render_Settings.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-media-category-management/trunk/include/class-WP_MCM_Options.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-category-management/#developers (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3242626/wp-media-category-management/trunk/include/admin/class-WP_MCM_Settings.php (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-4711 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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