CVE-2025-8678

medium

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.

References

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-22

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00025