AlT Monitoring Plugin up to 1.0.3 on WordPress Setting ALT_Monitoring_edit cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in AlT Monitoring Plugin up to 1.0.3 on WordPress. This impacts the function ALT_Monitoring_edit of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-4194. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in AlT Monitoring Plugin up to 1.0.3 on WordPress. This issue affects the function ALT_Monitoring_edit of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The AlT Monitoring plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'ALT_Monitoring_edit' page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-4194 since 05/01/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-15557). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• AlT Monitoring Plugin

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• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3

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