CVE-2025-8678

Published: Aug 22, 2025Modified: Aug 25, 2025

5.9

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Exploitability: 0.7 / Impact: 5.2

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

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 CWEs

CWE-918

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.

References (3)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-crontrol/trunk/src/bootstrap.php#L2712

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3347075/

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab40146d-9b49-4214-af73-41c5b5512542?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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