YANewsflash Plugin up to 1.0.3 on WordPress Setting yanewsflash.php cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in YANewsflash Plugin up to 1.0.3 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file yanewsflash/yanewsflash.php of the component Setting Handler. This manipulation causes cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-6054. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in YANewsflash Plugin up to 1.0.3 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the file yanewsflash/yanewsflash.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 YANewsflash 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 'yanewsflash/yanewsflash.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-2025-6054 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.

By approaching the search of inurl:yanewsflash/yanewsflash.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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-2025-22404). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• YANewsflash Plugin

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• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3

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