CVE-2025-58918: Waituk Entrada Theme CSRF Vulnerability

CVE-2025-58918 Overview

CVE-2025-58918 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Waituk Entrada WordPress theme. The flaw affects all versions of Entrada up to and including 5.7.7. An attacker who tricks an authenticated user into visiting a crafted page can force that user's browser to submit unauthorized state-changing requests to the WordPress site. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery and requires user interaction to succeed. Successful exploitation results in limited integrity impact without confidentiality or availability loss.

Critical Impact
Attackers can trigger unauthorized actions on behalf of authenticated Entrada theme users by luring them to attacker-controlled pages.

Affected Products

Waituk Entrada WordPress theme
Entrada versions from initial release through 5.7.7
WordPress sites running the vulnerable theme

Discovery Timeline

2025-10-27 - CVE-2025-58918 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-58918

Vulnerability Analysis

The Entrada theme exposes one or more state-changing actions that do not verify request origin. The theme fails to validate a WordPress nonce or check the HTTP Referer header before processing requests. An authenticated user visiting a malicious page will have their browser automatically issue the crafted request with valid session cookies attached.

The issue is limited to integrity impact. The attacker cannot directly read data or crash the site, but can alter theme-controlled state within the victim's privilege boundary. Because the attack requires user interaction and depends on the victim's session, exploitation is opportunistic rather than fully automated.

Root Cause

The root cause is missing CSRF protection on one or more theme request handlers, as described in CWE-352. WordPress provides the wp_nonce_field() and check_admin_referer() primitives for exactly this purpose, but the affected code paths in Entrada up to 5.7.7 do not invoke them. Without a nonce check, any origin can submit valid-looking requests using the victim's authenticated cookies.

Attack Vector

The attack is delivered over the network and requires the victim to interact with attacker-controlled content, such as a link in an email, a forum post, or a compromised page loaded in the same browser session as the WordPress site. When the victim loads the attacker's page, embedded HTML or JavaScript issues a forged POST or GET request to the vulnerable Entrada endpoint. The WordPress site processes the request as legitimate because the session cookie is present and no nonce is required. Refer to the Patchstack WordPress Vulnerability Report for the specific handler details.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-58918

Indicators of Compromise

Unexpected POST or GET requests to Entrada theme endpoints originating with an external Referer header.
Authenticated actions in WordPress logs that lack a corresponding user-initiated navigation event.
Configuration or content changes tied to theme functionality that users cannot account for.

Detection Strategies

Inspect web server access logs for requests to theme paths where the Referer header points to a third-party domain.
Correlate WordPress audit log entries with user session activity to flag state changes without preceding admin page loads.
Deploy a WordPress security plugin that logs and alerts on requests lacking a valid nonce parameter.

Monitoring Recommendations

Alert on anomalous request patterns targeting the Entrada theme directory under wp-content/themes/entrada/.
Monitor authenticated administrator sessions for cross-origin request activity.
Track theme and site option modifications and route them through a review workflow.

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-58918

Immediate Actions Required

Update the Entrada theme to a version later than 5.7.7 once the vendor publishes a fix.
Instruct administrators to log out of WordPress before browsing untrusted sites.
Restrict administrative access to trusted networks or require reauthentication for sensitive actions.

Patch Information

No fixed version is listed in the enriched CVE data at the time of publication. Consult the Patchstack WordPress Vulnerability Report for the latest remediation guidance and confirm the installed theme version through the WordPress admin dashboard.

Workarounds

Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule that blocks state-changing requests to Entrada endpoints when the Referer header is missing or off-origin.
Enforce SameSite=Lax or SameSite=Strict on WordPress session cookies to reduce cross-site request delivery.
Disable or replace the Entrada theme on production sites until a patched release is available.

bash

# Example nginx rule to block off-origin POSTs to theme endpoints
location ~* /wp-content/themes/entrada/ {
    if ($request_method = POST) {
        if ($http_referer !~* "^https?://example\.com/") {
            return 403;
        }
    }
}