CVE-2025-0865: De-Baat Wp Media Category Management

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Media Category Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions 2.0 to 2.3.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the wp_mcm_handle_action_settings() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to alter plugin settings, such as the taxonomy used for media, the base slug for media categories, and the default media category via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• De-Baat Wp Media Category Management: from 2.0.0, before 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.4.0)

Published 2025-02-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.