Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Manipulation

4.3
Improper Input Validation
CVE CVE-2025-11497
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published October 24, 2025
Last Updated November 4, 2025
Researcher Bao - BlueRock

Description

The Advanced Database Cleaner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the aDBc_prepare_elements_to_clean() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to alter the keep last setting via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. CVE-2025-64357 is a duplicate of this issue.

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Vulnerability Details for Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-database-cleaner (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.1.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1.6
Patched Version
  • 3.1.7

Recent vulnerabilities in Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2025-64357 4.3 Bao - BlueRock October 30, 2025
2 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.3 - Authenticated(Administrator+) PHP Object Injection via process_bulk_action CVE-2024-0668 6.6 Richard Telleng (stueotue) January 24, 2024
3 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection CVE-2023-49764 7.2 Kévin Mosbahi (Mika) December 4, 2023
4 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via aDBc_save_settings_callback CVE-2022-46813 4.3 thiennv February 21, 2023
5 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-2173 6.1 ZhongFu Su June 27, 2022
6 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.0.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2021-24921 6.1 ZhongFu Su January 24, 2022
7 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.0.1 - SQL injection CVE-2021-24141 7.2 Nguyen Van Khanh September 6, 2020

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