CVE-2025-11497 (GCVE-0-2025-11497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-25 06:49 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:51
VLAI
Title
Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Manipulation
Summary
The Advanced Database Cleaner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the aDBc_prepare_elements_to_clean() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to alter the keep last setting via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. CVE-2025-64357 is a duplicate of this issue.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-27 15:52 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2454 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Credits
Bao - BlueRock
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