CVE Daily

CVE-2025-8891

The OceanWP theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in v...

Medium CVSS 4.3

Overview

The OceanWP theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions 4.0.9 to 4.1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the oceanwp_notice_button_click() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install the Ocean Extra plugin via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CWE: CWE-352 Published: 2025-08-13T04:16:19.003
Risk analysis

This vulnerability is rated 🟡 MEDIUM.

  • CVSS: 4.3 (MEDIUM)
  • Detected tags: csrf, wordpress (tag impact: MODERATE)

Recommended actions:

  • CSRF tokens, SameSite=Strict for cookies, validate Origin/Referer.

Recommended tools

Tags