Blog Designer For Elementor – Post Slider, Post Carousel, Post Grid: Cross-site request forgery
Blog Designer For Elementor – Post Slider, Post Carousel, Post Grid is affected by cross-site request forgery. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Blog Designer For Elementor – Post Slider, Post Carousel, Post Grid
- Plugin slug
blog-designer-for-elementor- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 11, 2025
This CVE was published Sep 11, 2025 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Blog Designer For Elementor – Post Slider, Post Carousel, Post Grid to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Blog Designer For Elementor – Post Slider, Post Carousel, Post Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 1.1.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the bdfe_install_activate_rswpbs_only function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install the 'rs-wp-books-showcase' plugin via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N