CVE-2025-8678: Johnbillion Wp Crontrol

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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, up to and including 1.19.1

Published 2025-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.