CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-0688
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-04-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-918
Description
The Webmention plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.2 via the 'Tools::read' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-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://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-webmention/blob/057223cee18a9e93b017d0f21db6ea77a7686489/includes/class-tools.php#L81 github.com
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/webmention/tags/5.6.2/includes/class-tools.php#L81 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3494831/webmention plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/02c9beba-dfa5-4a30-8355-62ff9a2630f7?source=cve www.wordfence.com