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CVE-2025-1043: Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files <= 2.7.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Blind Server-Side Request Forgery via embeddoc Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.5 via the 'embeddoc' shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-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.

Affected products

• awsmin Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files: through 2.7.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3242370/embed-any-document
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b9f8c600-d62d-4f27-ba73-1a77a63859bc?source=cve

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