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CVE-2025-47491: Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in A WP Life Contact Form Widget

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Overview

CVE-2025-47491 is a significant Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability identified in the Contact Form Widget by A WP Life. This vulnerability has potential implications for any system running versions up to 1.4.6 of the Contact Form Widget. As a cybersecurity concern, it can lead to unauthorized actions being performed on behalf of the user without their knowledge, potentially leading to system compromise or data leakage.

Vulnerability Summary

CVE ID: CVE-2025-47491
Severity: High (CVSS: 7.4)
Attack Vector: Network
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: Required
Impact: System compromise or data leakage

Affected Products

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Product | Affected Versions

A WP Life Contact Form Widget | Up to and including 1.4.6

How the Exploit Works

An attacker exploiting the CVE-2025-47491 vulnerability would use a CSRF attack to trick an unsuspecting user into performing actions on the attacker’s behalf. The attacker does this by delivering a maliciously crafted link or script, which, when executed, makes a request to the vulnerable application with the user’s privileges. This can lead to unauthorized actions being performed without the user’s consent or knowledge, potentially compromising the system or leading to data leakage.

Conceptual Example Code

Here is a conceptual example of how the vulnerability might be exploited:

POST /wp/contact-form/submit HTTP/1.1
Host: target.example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
csrf_payload=malicious_data&user=innocent_user

In this example, the attacker tricks the user into unknowingly submitting a POST request to the vulnerable endpoint. The “malicious_data” is then processed by the server using the privileges of the “innocent_user”.

Mitigation

To mitigate this vulnerability, users are advised to apply the vendor patch once it is available. In the meantime, implementing a web application firewall (WAF) or intrusion detection system (IDS) can serve as temporary mitigation, helping to identify and block potential CSRF attacks.

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Disclaimer:

The information and code presented in this article are provided for educational and defensive cybersecurity purposes only. Any conceptual or pseudocode examples are simplified representations intended to raise awareness and promote secure development and system configuration practices.

Do not use this information to attempt unauthorized access or exploit vulnerabilities on systems that you do not own or have explicit permission to test.

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