CVE-2025-30601: Flipdish Ordering System CSRF Vulnerability

CVE-2025-30601 Overview

CVE-2025-30601 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Flipdish Ordering System WordPress plugin. The flaw affects all plugin versions up to and including 1.5.2. Attackers can craft malicious requests that force authenticated administrators to unknowingly change plugin settings when they visit an attacker-controlled page. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery and requires user interaction to trigger. Exploitation depends on tricking a logged-in administrator into clicking a link or loading a page containing the forged request.

Critical Impact
Attackers can modify Flipdish Ordering System plugin settings by abusing an administrator's authenticated session, resulting in integrity impact on WordPress sites running the plugin.

Affected Products

Flipdish Ordering System WordPress plugin versions up to and including 1.5.2
WordPress sites with the flipdish-ordering-system plugin installed and active
Administrator sessions on affected WordPress installations

Discovery Timeline

2025-03-24 - CVE-2025-30601 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-30601

Vulnerability Analysis

The Flipdish Ordering System plugin exposes settings-modification endpoints that lack proper CSRF protection. State-changing requests do not validate a unique, unpredictable anti-CSRF token tied to the user's session. As a result, the server accepts forged requests originating from third-party origins as long as the victim's browser carries a valid authentication cookie. The vulnerability requires user interaction, since the target administrator must load an attacker-controlled page or click a crafted link while logged into WordPress. Impact is limited to integrity, with no direct confidentiality or availability consequences reported.

Root Cause

The root cause is the absence of anti-CSRF token verification on plugin settings handlers. WordPress provides the wp_nonce_field() and check_admin_referer() primitives to bind sensitive actions to a per-session nonce. The affected plugin versions do not consistently verify these nonces on settings-change endpoints. This omission allows any cross-origin request accompanied by the administrator's session cookie to be treated as legitimate.

Attack Vector

An attacker hosts a page containing an auto-submitting HTML form or JavaScript request targeting the vulnerable settings endpoint of a Flipdish-enabled WordPress site. The attacker then delivers the URL to an administrator through phishing, social media, or a comment link. When the administrator visits the page while authenticated to WordPress, the browser automatically attaches session cookies to the outbound request. The vulnerable handler processes the request and applies the attacker-controlled settings without additional verification.

No verified exploit code is publicly available. Technical details are documented in the Patchstack Vulnerability Report.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-30601

Indicators of Compromise

Unexpected changes to Flipdish Ordering System plugin configuration recorded in WordPress option tables such as wp_options.
Administrator HTTP POST requests to plugin settings endpoints with a Referer header pointing to an unrelated external domain.
Absence of a valid _wpnonce parameter in settings-change requests captured in access logs.
Modified payment, ordering, or integration settings that no site administrator initiated.

Detection Strategies

Enable WordPress audit logging to record settings changes, capturing the acting user, source IP, and referrer for each administrative action.
Monitor web server access logs for POST requests to plugin admin URLs originating from cross-origin referrers.
Compare current plugin configuration against a known-good baseline on a scheduled interval to identify drift.
Alert on administrator activity from unusual geographic locations or user-agent strings that deviate from staff baselines.

Monitoring Recommendations

Ingest WordPress and web server logs into a centralized analytics platform to correlate administrator actions with browsing context.
Track failed and successful plugin settings updates over time to identify anomalies.
Alert on requests to plugin endpoints that lack a nonce parameter or that carry mismatched Origin and Host headers.

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-30601

Immediate Actions Required

Update the Flipdish Ordering System plugin to a version later than 1.5.2 once the vendor publishes a fixed release.
Audit recent changes to plugin settings and revert any unauthorized modifications.
Require administrators to log out of WordPress sessions when not actively working in the admin panel.
Restrict access to /wp-admin/ to trusted IP ranges where operationally feasible.

Patch Information

Refer to the Patchstack Vulnerability Report for vendor patch status and remediation guidance. Site owners should monitor the plugin's WordPress.org page and apply the fixed release as soon as it is available.

Workarounds

Deactivate the Flipdish Ordering System plugin until a patched version is available if the plugin is not business-critical.
Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule to block cross-origin POST requests to plugin admin endpoints without a matching Origin header.
Enforce browser isolation for WordPress administrators and require use of a dedicated administrative browser profile.
Educate administrators to avoid clicking untrusted links while authenticated to the WordPress admin panel.

bash

# Example WAF rule concept (ModSecurity) to block cross-origin POSTs to wp-admin without a matching Origin
SecRule REQUEST_METHOD "@streq POST" \
  "chain,phase:1,deny,status:403,id:1030601,msg:'Blocked cross-origin POST to wp-admin'"
  SecRule REQUEST_URI "@beginsWith /wp-admin/" \
    "chain"
    SecRule &REQUEST_HEADERS:Origin "@eq 1" \
      "chain"
      SecRule REQUEST_HEADERS:Origin "!@beginsWith https://your-site.example" "t:none"