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SCA: security update for johnbillion/wp-crontrol (GHSA-35c5-67fm-cpcp)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435000

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2025-8678)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-35c5-67fm-cpcp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 435000

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8678

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Threat Score: 1.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8678

cwe: CWE-918