CVE-2025-50044 Overview
CVE-2025-50044 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Rameez Iqbal Real Estate Manager plugin for WordPress. The flaw affects all versions of real-estate-manager up to and including 7.3. Attackers can trick authenticated users into submitting forged requests that trigger unintended actions in the plugin. Successful exploitation can lead to disruption of plugin functionality and availability impact on the WordPress site. The weakness is tracked under CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery.
Critical Impact
A remote attacker can leverage user interaction to execute unauthorized state-changing actions in the Real Estate Manager plugin, resulting in high availability impact on affected WordPress installations.
Affected Products
- Rameez Iqbal Real Estate Manager plugin for WordPress
- All versions from n/a through 7.3
- WordPress sites with the real-estate-manager plugin activated
Discovery Timeline
- 2025-06-20 - CVE-2025-50044 published to the National Vulnerability Database
- 2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database
Technical Details for CVE-2025-50044
Vulnerability Analysis
The Real Estate Manager plugin fails to validate the origin and authenticity of state-changing HTTP requests. Sensitive plugin actions do not verify a WordPress nonce or check the Referer header before executing. An attacker hosting a malicious page can craft an HTML form or JavaScript request that targets these unprotected endpoints. When an authenticated administrator or privileged user visits the attacker-controlled page, the browser automatically sends session cookies with the forged request. The server processes the action as if it were an intentional administrative operation. The CVSS vector indicates network reachability, low complexity, no privileges on the attacker's side, and required user interaction, with impact concentrated on availability.
Root Cause
The root cause is the absence of anti-CSRF tokens on privileged plugin actions. WordPress provides the wp_nonce_field() and check_admin_referer() primitives for this purpose, but the affected code paths in real-estate-manager up to version 7.3 do not enforce them. Any request that presents a valid authenticated session cookie is trusted, regardless of origin.
Attack Vector
Exploitation requires an attacker to lure an authenticated WordPress user to a controlled web page. The page contains a hidden form or fetch request that targets a vulnerable plugin endpoint on the victim's WordPress site. The victim's browser submits the request with their session credentials attached. The plugin executes the action without verifying user intent. See the Patchstack advisory for additional technical context.
Detection Methods for CVE-2025-50044
Indicators of Compromise
- Unexpected changes to real estate listings, property data, or plugin configuration inside the WordPress admin.
- HTTP POST requests to real-estate-manager endpoints with Referer headers pointing to external domains.
- Administrative actions performed outside normal working hours or from unusual client IPs.
- Web server access logs showing plugin action URLs invoked immediately after external site visits by admin users.
Detection Strategies
- Inspect WordPress access logs for requests to plugin admin handlers that lack a same-origin Referer header.
- Correlate WordPress audit trail entries with browser history or proxy logs for administrator accounts.
- Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule that flags state-changing requests to real-estate-manager endpoints missing a valid nonce parameter.
Monitoring Recommendations
- Enable a WordPress activity logging plugin to record all administrative actions and their originating IPs.
- Monitor for anomalous spikes in plugin configuration or listing modifications.
- Alert on outbound admin-user browsing patterns immediately preceding privileged WordPress actions.
How to Mitigate CVE-2025-50044
Immediate Actions Required
- Update the Real Estate Manager plugin to a version later than 7.3 as soon as a patched release is available from the vendor.
- Restrict WordPress administrative access to trusted networks using IP allow-lists at the web server or WAF layer.
- Require administrators to use a separate browser profile or session for WordPress management to reduce cross-site request exposure.
- Audit recent plugin configuration and content changes for signs of unauthorized modification.
Patch Information
Refer to the Patchstack advisory for CVE-2025-50044 for vendor patch status. Versions through 7.3 are affected; upgrade to the fixed release once published by the plugin author.
Workarounds
- Deactivate the real-estate-manager plugin until a patched version is installed if the functionality is not business-critical.
- Deploy a virtual patch through a WordPress-aware WAF to block requests to plugin endpoints that lack a valid nonce.
- Enforce SameSite=Lax or SameSite=Strict on WordPress authentication cookies to reduce cross-origin cookie transmission.
- Require re-authentication for administrative sessions and shorten cookie lifetimes to limit the exploitation window.
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