CVE-2025-8678

MEDIUM

WP Crontrol 1.17.0-1.19.1 - Authenticated Server-Side Request Forgery via wp_remote_request

Title source: llm

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 (3)

Core 3

Core References

Product

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

Product

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

Third Party Advisory

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

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9

EPSS 0.0032

EPSS Percentile 23.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-918

Status published

Products (2)

johnbillion/WP Crontrol 1.17.0 - 1.19.1

johnbillion/wp-crontrol 1.17.0 - 1.19.2Packagist

Published Aug 22, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026