Image Slider by Ays- Responsive Slider and Carousel <= 2.7.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Slider Deletion
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
The Image Slider by Ays- Responsive Slider and Carousel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the bulk delete functionality. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary sliders via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-14454
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-cqch-5xm2-q4vg
References
Other 4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e211df80-aab7-43a1-8c11-a472f90ef4c6?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ays-slider/trunk/includes/lists/class-ays-slider-list-table.php#L430
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ays-slider/tags/2.7.0/includes/lists/class-ays-slider-list-table.php#L430
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3417916/ays-slider/tags/2.7.1/includes/lists/class-ays-slider-list-table.php?old=3278880&old_path=ays-slider%2Ftags%2F2.7.0%2Fincludes%2Flists%2Fclass-ays-slider-list-table.php
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Sources
- CVE-2025-14454 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-14454 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-cqch-5xm2-q4vg · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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