CVE-2025-1662: URL Media Uploader <= 1.0.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery via DNS Rebinding

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: 2025-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The URL Media Uploader plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 via the 'url_media_uploader_url_upload' action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-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

apprhyme URL Media Uploader: through 1.0.1

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3247347%40url-media-uploader&new=3247347%40url-media-uploader
https://wordpress.org/plugins/url-media-uploader/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ae8f1852-2d67-4ed9-ab3d-5b3bf4083e06?source=cve

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