CVE-2025-57960: TravelMap Plugin CSRF Vulnerability

CVE-2025-57960 Overview

CVE-2025-57960 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting the TravelMap Travel Map (travelmap-blog) WordPress plugin. The issue impacts all versions up to and including 1.0.3. An attacker can craft a malicious web page that, when visited by an authenticated user, triggers unintended state-changing requests against the affected WordPress site. The weakness is classified under CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery. Exploitation requires user interaction, which limits the attack path but does not eliminate risk for site administrators who browse the web while logged in.

Critical Impact
Successful exploitation lets an attacker perform low-integrity state changes in the plugin context by tricking an authenticated user into loading attacker-controlled content.

Affected Products

TravelMap Travel Map (travelmap-blog) WordPress plugin, versions through 1.0.3
WordPress installations with the vulnerable plugin activated
Sites where administrators or privileged users maintain active browser sessions

Discovery Timeline

2025-09-22 - CVE-2025-57960 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-57960

Vulnerability Analysis

The plugin fails to validate the origin or intent of state-changing HTTP requests. Endpoints exposed by the plugin do not verify a WordPress nonce or an equivalent anti-CSRF token before processing requests. When an authenticated WordPress user visits a page controlled by an attacker, the browser automatically attaches the user's session cookies to the forged request. The plugin then processes the request as if it were initiated by the user.

Based on the CVSS vector, the attack is network reachable, requires no privileges, and requires user interaction. The impact is limited to integrity, with no direct confidentiality or availability loss. The EPSS probability is 0.163%, reflecting a low but non-zero likelihood of exploitation activity in the near term.

Root Cause

The root cause is the absence of CSRF protection [CWE-352] on plugin request handlers. WordPress provides wp_nonce_field() and check_admin_referer() for exactly this purpose. The vulnerable versions of travelmap-blog do not enforce these checks on sensitive actions, so any authenticated session can be abused cross-origin.

Attack Vector

An attacker hosts a page containing an HTML form or JavaScript that submits a request to the target WordPress site. The attacker lures an authenticated user to visit the page, for example through phishing or a comment link. The browser sends the request with the victim's authentication cookies, and the plugin executes the action. No credentials are disclosed, but plugin state can be modified within the victim's privilege level.

See the Patchstack Vulnerability Report for advisory details.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-57960

Indicators of Compromise

Unexpected changes in the travelmap-blog plugin configuration or content that do not correlate with legitimate administrative activity
WordPress access logs showing POST requests to plugin endpoints with Referer headers pointing to external, unrelated domains
Authenticated requests to plugin handlers lacking a valid _wpnonce parameter

Detection Strategies

Inventory all WordPress sites for the travelmap-blog plugin and confirm the installed version against 1.0.3 or earlier
Review web server logs for cross-origin Referer headers on plugin action URLs
Enable WordPress audit logging to correlate plugin state changes with administrator sessions

Monitoring Recommendations

Alert on POST requests to wp-admin/admin.php or admin-ajax.php targeting travelmap-blog actions without an accompanying nonce parameter
Monitor for anomalous outbound admin activity following user interaction with untrusted email links
Track plugin version drift across managed WordPress fleets to identify unpatched instances

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-57960

Immediate Actions Required

Update the TravelMap Travel Map plugin to a fixed release when the vendor publishes one beyond version 1.0.3
Deactivate and remove the travelmap-blog plugin if a patched version is not yet available and the plugin is not essential
Require administrators to log out of WordPress sessions when browsing untrusted sites

Patch Information

At the time of NVD publication, the advisory identifies all versions through 1.0.3 as affected. Consult the Patchstack Vulnerability Report for the latest fix status and upgrade guidance.

Workarounds

Deploy a web application firewall rule that blocks requests to travelmap-blog endpoints missing a valid _wpnonce token or with off-site Referer headers
Restrict WordPress admin access by IP allowlist to reduce the population of users who can be targeted
Enforce SameSite=Lax or SameSite=Strict cookie attributes on WordPress authentication cookies where compatible

bash

# Example WAF/Nginx rule blocking cross-origin POSTs to the plugin action endpoint
location ~ ^/wp-admin/admin-ajax\.php$ {
    if ($request_method = POST) {
        if ($http_referer !~* "^https?://your-site\.example/") {
            return 403;
        }
    }
}