CVE-2026-0688

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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/02c9beba-dfa5-4a30-8355-62ff9a2630f7?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3494831/webmention

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/webmention/tags/5.6.2/includes/class-tools.php#L81

https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-webmention/blob/057223cee18a9e93b017d0f21db6ea77a7686489/includes/class-tools.php#L81

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3