CVE-2025-49968 Overview
CVE-2025-49968 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Oganro XML Travel Portal Widget plugin (oganro-reservation-widget) for WordPress. The flaw affects all plugin versions up to and including 2.0. An attacker can trick an authenticated user into submitting a forged request that performs unintended state-changing actions in the plugin. The weakness is classified under CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery. Exploitation requires user interaction, typically achieved by luring a logged-in user to a malicious page or link.
Critical Impact
An attacker can perform unauthorized actions in the WordPress site context when an authenticated user visits a crafted page, resulting in limited integrity impact on plugin data.
Affected Products
- Oganro XML Travel Portal Widget (oganro-reservation-widget) WordPress plugin
- All versions from initial release through 2.0
- WordPress installations that have the plugin installed and active
Discovery Timeline
- 2025-06-20 - CVE-2025-49968 published to the National Vulnerability Database
- 2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database
Technical Details for CVE-2025-49968
Vulnerability Analysis
The plugin exposes one or more state-changing endpoints that do not validate the origin or authenticity of incoming requests. Because the endpoints rely solely on the authenticated session cookie, a browser will automatically attach credentials when a request is issued from an attacker-controlled origin. The attacker crafts an HTML form or JavaScript payload that submits a request to the vulnerable endpoint. When a WordPress user with an active session loads that content, the browser executes the request under the victim's identity.
Successful exploitation requires user interaction, which limits mass exploitation. The impact is confined to integrity of plugin-controlled data. There is no direct confidentiality or availability impact according to the assigned CVSS metrics.
Root Cause
The root cause is missing or improperly implemented CSRF protection in the plugin's request handlers. WordPress provides a nonce mechanism through wp_nonce_field() and check_admin_referer() or wp_verify_nonce(). The vulnerable handlers in oganro-reservation-widget do not enforce nonce validation, so any authenticated request that reaches the endpoint is processed as legitimate.
Attack Vector
The attack vector is network-based and requires the victim to interact with attacker-supplied content. A typical scenario involves the following steps:
- The attacker hosts a webpage containing an auto-submitting form or fetch() call targeting the vulnerable plugin endpoint on the victim's WordPress site.
- A user with an active administrative or privileged session on the target site visits the malicious page.
- The browser submits the forged request, including the WordPress session cookies, and the plugin executes the action without verifying request origin.
No code example is provided because the vendor advisory does not publish exploit code. Refer to the Patchstack CSRF Vulnerability Report for advisory details.
Detection Methods for CVE-2025-49968
Indicators of Compromise
- HTTP POST or GET requests to oganro-reservation-widget plugin endpoints with Referer or Origin headers pointing to third-party domains.
- Unexpected configuration or reservation record changes in the plugin without corresponding administrator activity in WordPress audit logs.
- Requests to plugin endpoints missing the WordPress _wpnonce parameter.
Detection Strategies
- Enable verbose HTTP access logging on the WordPress web server and filter for requests targeting plugin paths containing oganro-reservation-widget.
- Correlate authenticated administrative actions with the source Referer header to identify off-site request origins.
- Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule set that flags state-changing requests to WordPress plugin endpoints lacking a valid nonce parameter.
Monitoring Recommendations
- Monitor the WordPress wp_options and plugin-specific database tables for unexpected changes.
- Track administrative user session activity and flag anomalous behavior originating from unusual referrers.
- Forward web server and WordPress audit logs to a centralized SIEM for retention and correlation.
How to Mitigate CVE-2025-49968
Immediate Actions Required
- Deactivate the Oganro XML Travel Portal Widget plugin until a fixed version is available from the vendor.
- Audit administrative accounts and review recent plugin configuration changes for signs of forged actions.
- Require administrators to log out of active WordPress sessions before browsing untrusted sites.
Patch Information
At the time of publication, no patched version above 2.0 is referenced in the advisory. Monitor the Patchstack advisory and the vendor's plugin page for an updated release that implements nonce validation on all state-changing endpoints.
Workarounds
- Remove or disable the plugin if it is not essential to site operations.
- Restrict access to WordPress administrative pages with IP allowlisting at the web server or WAF layer.
- Enforce SameSite=Lax or SameSite=Strict on WordPress session cookies to reduce cross-site request delivery.
- Require re-authentication for sensitive administrative actions via a security plugin that adds nonce or CAPTCHA challenges.
# Example: disable the plugin via WP-CLI until a fix is released
wp plugin deactivate oganro-reservation-widget
wp plugin status oganro-reservation-widget
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