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CVE-2025-8013: Quttera Web Malware Scanner <= 3.5.1.41 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.8 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: 2025-08-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The Quttera Web Malware Scanner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.1.41 via the 'RunExternalScan' 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.

Affected products

• Quttera ThreatSign – Web Malware Scanner for WordPress: through 3.5.1.41

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quttera-web-malware-scanner/trunk/qtrAjaxHandler.php#L352
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quttera-web-malware-scanner/trunk/qtrExternalScanner.php#L28
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3344330/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/40957153-45f1-40c9-91ce-f3491ca7eee5?source=cve

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