CVE-2025-8678

WP Crontrol - 1.17.0 - 1.19.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Blind Server-Side Request Forgery

mediumServer-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

5.9

CVSS Score

5.9

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

1.19.2

Patched in

Time to patch

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

High

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions>=1.17.0 <=1.19.1

PublishedAugust 21, 2025

Last updatedAugust 25, 2025

Affected pluginwp-crontrol

References

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

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