CVE-2025-46251
📋 TL;DR
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the VikRestaurants WordPress plugin allows attackers to trick authenticated administrators into performing unintended actions. This affects all WordPress sites using VikRestaurants Table Reservations and Take-Away plugin versions up to 1.3.3.
💻 Affected Systems
- VikRestaurants Table Reservations and Take-Away WordPress plugin
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers could chain this CSRF with stored XSS to compromise administrator accounts, deface websites, or steal sensitive data.
Likely Case
Attackers create malicious forms that trick administrators into changing plugin settings or injecting malicious content.
If Mitigated
With proper CSRF tokens and same-origin policies, the vulnerability would be prevented.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires social engineering to trick authenticated administrators into clicking malicious links.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: 1.3.4 or later
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Log into WordPress admin panel. 2. Navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins. 3. Find VikRestaurants plugin. 4. Click 'Update Now' if available. 5. Alternatively, download version 1.3.4+ from WordPress repository and manually update.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
CSRF Protection Headers
allImplement Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict form submissions.
Add to .htaccess: Header set Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'; form-action 'self'"
Disable Plugin
linuxTemporarily disable the vulnerable plugin until patched.
wp plugin deactivate vikrestaurants
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Restrict administrator access to trusted networks only.
- Implement web application firewall (WAF) rules to block CSRF patterns.
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check WordPress admin > Plugins > VikRestaurants for version number. If version is 1.3.3 or lower, you are vulnerable.Check Version:
wp plugin get vikrestaurants --field=versionVerify Fix Applied:
After update, confirm plugin version shows 1.3.4 or higher in WordPress plugins list.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual POST requests to VikRestaurants admin endpoints without referrer headers.
- Multiple failed CSRF token validations in WordPress debug logs.
Network Indicators:
- HTTP requests with missing or forged Referer headers to plugin admin pages.
- Unexpected cross-origin form submissions to VikRestaurants endpoints.
SIEM Query:
source="wordpress.log" AND "vikrestaurants" AND ("csrf" OR "invalid nonce")