CVE-2025-47594: DAEXT Soccer Live Scores CSRF Vulnerability

CVE-2025-47594 Overview

CVE-2025-47594 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the DAEXT Soccer Live Scores plugin for WordPress. The flaw affects all plugin versions from initial release through 1.0.5. An attacker can craft a malicious web page that triggers unintended state-changing actions when an authenticated administrator visits it. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery.

Exploitation requires user interaction, and the vulnerability has a limited integrity impact with no direct confidentiality or availability effects. The issue was published to the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) on May 7, 2025.

Critical Impact
An attacker can trick an authenticated administrator into executing unwanted plugin actions by visiting a malicious page, leading to unauthorized modifications within the WordPress site.

Affected Products

DAEXT Soccer Live Scores WordPress plugin
All versions up to and including 1.0.5
WordPress sites with the plugin installed and an active administrator session

Discovery Timeline

2025-05-07 - CVE-2025-47594 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-47594

Vulnerability Analysis

The Soccer Live Scores plugin exposes state-changing administrative endpoints that do not validate the origin of incoming requests. The plugin fails to require or verify a WordPress nonce (wp_nonce_field / check_admin_referer) on sensitive actions. As a result, a browser holding a valid administrator session cookie will submit forged requests originating from an attacker-controlled page.

The attacker crafts an HTML form or JavaScript payload that targets the vulnerable endpoint on the victim WordPress site. When an authenticated administrator loads the attacker's page, the browser automatically attaches session cookies to the outbound request. The plugin processes the request as legitimate because it relies solely on session authentication for authorization decisions.

Root Cause

The root cause is missing anti-CSRF token verification on administrative actions within the plugin. Standard WordPress development guidance requires nonces for any state-changing operation, but the plugin's request handlers do not enforce this check. The vulnerability persists through version 1.0.5 with no earlier fixed release identified.

Attack Vector

Exploitation occurs over the network and requires user interaction, specifically an authenticated administrator visiting an attacker-controlled page. The attack does not require the adversary to hold any credentials on the target WordPress instance. See the Patchstack advisory for additional technical detail.

The vulnerability manifests when the plugin processes an authenticated request without verifying its origin. No verified proof-of-concept exploit code is publicly available at this time.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-47594

Indicators of Compromise

Unexpected changes to Soccer Live Scores plugin configuration or data made outside of expected administrator activity windows.
HTTP POST requests to plugin admin endpoints with Referer headers pointing to external, untrusted domains.
Administrator session activity immediately following visits to suspicious or unknown external URLs in browser history.

Detection Strategies

Inspect WordPress access logs for requests to Soccer Live Scores admin endpoints where the Referer header does not match the site's own domain.
Correlate plugin setting modifications with the source IP and user-agent of the administrator session to identify anomalous origin.
Enable WordPress audit logging plugins to record configuration changes and cross-reference against known administrator activity.

Monitoring Recommendations

Alert on administrative POST requests to /wp-admin/admin.php and /wp-admin/admin-post.php when the Referer header is absent or externally hosted.
Monitor for repeated administrator logins followed by immediate configuration changes from unusual geolocations.
Baseline normal plugin configuration state and alert on drift.

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-47594

Immediate Actions Required

Deactivate the DAEXT Soccer Live Scores plugin on affected WordPress installations until a patched version is available.
Restrict WordPress administrator access using IP allowlists at the web server or WAF layer.
Instruct administrators to log out of WordPress before browsing untrusted sites and to use a dedicated browser profile for administrative work.

Patch Information

At the time of publication, no fixed version of DAEXT Soccer Live Scores beyond 1.0.5 has been identified in the CVE record. Monitor the Patchstack advisory and the plugin's official page for a security release.

Workarounds

Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule that blocks state-changing requests to plugin endpoints when the Referer or Origin header does not match the site's domain.
Enforce SameSite=Lax or SameSite=Strict cookie attributes on WordPress session cookies to reduce cross-origin request risk.
Require re-authentication for administrator sessions after short idle periods to shrink the exploitation window.

bash

# Example nginx rule to block cross-origin POSTs to wp-admin
location ~* ^/wp-admin/ {
    if ($request_method = POST) {
        set $csrf_check "";
        if ($http_referer !~* "^https?://your-domain\.com") {
            set $csrf_check "block";
        }
        if ($csrf_check = "block") {
            return 403;
        }
    }
}