CVE-2025-12416

The Pagerank Tools plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.5. This is due to missing nonce validation on the pr_save_settings() function and insufficient input sanitization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to 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. The injected scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the plugin's settings page.

CVSS 3.1

6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-352

Published

2025-11-04

Modified

2026-10-18

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pagerank-tools/tags/1.1.5/functions.inc.php#L176
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pagerank-tools/tags/1.1.5/functions.inc.php#L192
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/177900d6-c52e-4ac4-a74d-412e453f9d05?source=cve

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