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WordPress Plugin: wp-crontrol: CVE-2025-8678: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:N)

Published

Aug 21, 2025

Added

Aug 22, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

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.

Solution

wp-crontrol-plugin-cve-2025-8678

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8678
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab40146d-9b49-4214-af73-41c5b5512542?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-25506
CVE-2025-8678
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2025-8678
CWE-918
EUVD-EUVD-2025-25506

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