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CVE-2025-8678: WP Crontrol - 1.17.0 - 1.19.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Blind Server-Side Request Forgery

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The WP Crontrol plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to blind Server-Side Request Forgery in versions 1.17.0 to 1.19.1 via the 'wp_remote_request' 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

• johnbillion wp-crontrol: from 1.17.0 through 1.19.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-crontrol/trunk/src/bootstrap.php#L2712
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3347075/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab40146d-9b49-4214-af73-41c5b5512542?source=cve

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