CVE-2025-8678

5.9 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (5.9). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.9 medium

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 30% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-918
Published: 2025-08-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-crontrol/trunk/src/bootstrap.php#L2712
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3347075/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab40146d-9b49-4214-af73-41c5b5512542?source=cve

Check your stack JSON