CVE-2025-1306

HIGH 8.8

Newscrunch <= 1.8.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Upload

CVSS Score

8.8

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

The Newscrunch theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the newscrunch_install_and_activate_plugin() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CWE	CWE-352
Vendor	spicethemes
Product	newscrunch
Published	Mar 4, 2025
Last Updated	Apr 8, 2026

Stay Ahead of the Next One

Get instant alerts for spicethemes newscrunch

Be the first to know when new high vulnerabilities affecting spicethemes newscrunch are published — delivered to Slack, Telegram or Discord.

Get Free Alerts → Free · No credit card · 60 sec setup

CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Affected Versions

spicethemes / Newscrunch

0 ≤ 1.8.4

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1c507681-61e9-4bf0-8fe5-e2f401a7a8be?source=cve themes.trac.wordpress.org: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newscrunch/1.8.3/functions.php#L486 themes.trac.wordpress.org: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=261789%40newscrunch&new=261789%40newscrunch&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Credits

Gibran Abdillah