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Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.6 — Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Manipulation

CVE-2025-11497Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤3.1.6Update to 3.1.7 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance advanced-database-cleaner

  1. Affected≤ 3.1.6
  2. Patched in3.1.7

Update to 3.1.7 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 3.1.6. Version 3.1.7 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.1.7, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Bao - BlueRock.

The Advanced Database Cleaner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the aDBc_prepare_elements_to_clean() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to alter the keep last setting via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. CVE-2025-64357 is a duplicate of this issue.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance

All 8
More vulnerabilities in Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤3.1.6Update to 3.1.7
CVE-2025-64357
Medium6.6Authenticated(Administrator+) PHP Object Injection via process_bulk_action
≤3.1.3Update to 3.1.4
CVE-2024-0668
High7.2Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection
≤3.1.2Update to 3.1.3
CVE-2023-49764
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery via aDBc_save_settings_callback
≤3.1.1Update to 3.1.2
CVE-2022-46813
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.1.0Update to 3.1.1
CVE-2022-2173

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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