FKIE_CVE-2025-8678

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-22 08:15 - Updated: 2025-08-25 15:15
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-crontrol/trunk/src/bootstrap.php#L2712
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3347075/
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab40146d-9b49-4214-af73-41c5b5512542?source=cve
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