CVE-2025-47606: Simple Giveaways CSRF Vulnerability

CVE-2025-47606 Overview

CVE-2025-47606 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Igor Benic Simple Giveaways (giveasap) plugin for WordPress. The flaw affects all versions up to and including 2.49.0. An attacker can craft a malicious web page that, when visited by an authenticated user, triggers unintended state-changing requests against the plugin. The issue is tracked under CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery and is documented in the Patchstack WordPress Vulnerability Report.

Critical Impact
Attackers can trick authenticated WordPress users into executing unauthorized actions in the Simple Giveaways plugin, resulting in limited integrity impact on giveaway data and configuration.

Affected Products

Igor Benic Simple Giveaways (giveasap) WordPress plugin
All versions from initial release through 2.49.0
WordPress sites that have the plugin installed and activated

Discovery Timeline

2025-05-07 - CVE-2025-47606 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-47606

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability exists because the Simple Giveaways plugin fails to validate the origin of state-changing HTTP requests. WordPress provides nonce tokens through functions such as wp_nonce_field() and check_admin_referer() to prevent CSRF attacks. When plugin endpoints omit these checks, browsers automatically attach session cookies to cross-origin requests, allowing attacker-controlled pages to submit forged actions on behalf of the victim.

The attack requires user interaction. A logged-in administrator or privileged user must visit an attacker-controlled URL for exploitation to succeed. The confidentiality impact is none, integrity impact is low, and availability impact is none. This constrains the potential damage to unauthorized changes to giveaway entries, configuration, or related plugin data.

EPSS data indicates a low probability of exploitation in the near term. No public proof-of-concept exploit, CISA KEV listing, or in-the-wild exploitation has been reported.

Root Cause

The root cause is missing or insufficient CSRF protection on plugin request handlers. The affected endpoints do not verify a WordPress nonce or otherwise validate that requests originated from a trusted context within the WordPress admin interface.

Attack Vector

An attacker hosts a page containing a hidden HTML form or JavaScript request that targets a vulnerable plugin endpoint on the victim's WordPress site. When an authenticated user with sufficient privileges visits the malicious page, the browser submits the request with valid session cookies. The plugin processes the action as if the user initiated it.

See the Patchstack advisory for endpoint-level technical detail.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-47606

Indicators of Compromise

Unexpected modifications to Simple Giveaways entries, winners, or settings without corresponding admin login activity
HTTP POST requests to Simple Giveaways plugin endpoints with Referer headers pointing to external, untrusted domains
Administrator sessions that generate plugin-related actions immediately after browsing external sites

Detection Strategies

Review WordPress and web server access logs for requests to giveasap plugin URLs originating from off-site referers
Enable WordPress audit logging plugins to capture user-initiated changes and correlate them with admin behavior
Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule that flags state-changing requests to plugin endpoints lacking a valid nonce parameter

Monitoring Recommendations

Alert on anomalous configuration or content changes tied to the Simple Giveaways plugin outside of maintenance windows
Monitor administrative user activity for browsing patterns that precede unexpected plugin actions
Ingest WordPress and reverse-proxy logs into a centralized SIEM to correlate CSRF-style request chains across sessions

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-47606

Immediate Actions Required

Update the Simple Giveaways plugin to a version later than 2.49.0 as soon as the vendor publishes a fixed release
Audit privileged WordPress users and revoke unnecessary administrative access to reduce the attack surface
Instruct administrators to log out of WordPress when not actively managing the site to limit CSRF exposure

Patch Information

The vendor advisory is tracked through the Patchstack WordPress Vulnerability Report. Administrators should monitor the plugin's WordPress.org page and Patchstack for a patched release beyond version 2.49.0 and apply it promptly.

Workarounds

Deactivate and remove the Simple Giveaways plugin until a fixed version is available if giveaway functionality is not business-critical
Deploy a WAF or virtual patching solution that enforces Referer and Origin header validation for plugin admin endpoints
Restrict access to /wp-admin/ by IP address using web server access controls to limit exposure to trusted networks

bash

# Example nginx rule to restrict wp-admin access to a trusted IP range
location ~* ^/wp-admin/ {
    allow 203.0.113.0/24;
    deny all;
}