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CVE-2025-12406: The Project Honey Pot Spam Trap plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-12406· Medium 6.1

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.1 Medium.

Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 19:54 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
6.1Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 18 Nov 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 13 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Administrators should exercise caution to avoid interacting with untrusted links or requests while logged into the WordPress admin interface. Monitoring for plugin updates is recommended to apply any future fixes. Since this is a CSRF vulnerability, implementing or verifying nonce validation in the plugin code can mitigate the risk once a fix is available.

Description

The Project Honey Pot Spam Trap plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 1.0.1 is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) due to missing or incorrect nonce validation in the printAdminPage() function. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to trick site administrators into performing unwanted actions, such as updating plugin settings or injecting malicious scripts via forged requests.

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