CVE-2025-11917: WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher <= 2.8.11 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Server-Side Request Forgery via wpematico_test_feed

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-11-05 · updated 2026-10-18
Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.11 via the wpematico_test_feed() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-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

WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher: through 2.8.11

References

https://github.com/etruel/wpematico/commit/7a281dcfc0868490d62caee54f3b743708fed7cf
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.11/app/campaign_edit.php#L24
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.11/app/wpematico_functions.php#L1249
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.11/app/wpematico_functions.php#L1260
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5a1c6377-c2a7-4344-86bd-d2797db19469?source=cve

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