ARK Related Posts <= 2.19 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

4.3
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-13684
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published December 4, 2025
Last Updated December 11, 2025
Researcher Muhammad Nur Ibnu Hubab - Pondok Teknologi

Description

The ARK Related Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 2.19. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ark_rp_options_page function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's configuration settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Vulnerability Details for ARK Related Posts

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ark-relatedpost (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.20, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.19
Patched Version
  • 2.20

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