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CVE-2025-8625: Copypress Rest API 1.1 - 1.2 - Missing Configurable JWT Secret and File-Type Validation to Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-09-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-321

Description

The Copypress Rest API plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via copyreap_handle_image() Function in versions 1.1 to 1.2. The plugin falls back to a hard-coded JWT signing key when no secret is defined and does not restrict which file types can be fetched and saved as attachments. As a result, unauthenticated attackers can forge a valid token to gain elevated privileges and upload an arbitrary file (e.g. a PHP script) through the image handler, leading to remote code execution.

Affected products

• copypressdev Copypress Rest API: from 1.1 through 1.2

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/copypress-rest-api/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3045c9e5-4095-48e5-8d9d-16a091e69d54?source=cve

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