CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-8678
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-918
Description
The WP Crontrol plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to blind Server-Side Request Forgery in versions 1.17.0 to 1.19.1 via the 'wp_remote_request' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-crontrol/trunk/src/bootstrap.php#L2712 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3347075/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab40146d-9b49-4214-af73-41c5b5512542?source=cve www.wordfence.com