Zen Sticky Social Plugin up to 0.3 on WordPress Setting zen-sticky-social.php cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Zen Sticky Social Plugin up to 0.3 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file zen-social-sticky/zen-sticky-social.php of the component Setting Handler. This manipulation causes cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-6055. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Zen Sticky Social Plugin up to 0.3 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the file zen-social-sticky/zen-sticky-social.php of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Zen Sticky Social plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'zen-social-sticky/zen-sticky-social.php' 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. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-6055 since 06/13/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. 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.

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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-2025-18327). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Zen Sticky Social Plugin

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• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3

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