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CVE-2025-11917: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher plugin for WordPress contains a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in versions up to and including 2.8.11. The vulnerability was discovered on May 11, 2025, and affects the wpematico_test_feed() function (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the wpematico_test_feed() function and allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity and requiring low privileges (NVD, Wordfence).

Impact

The vulnerability can be exploited to query and modify information from internal services, potentially exposing sensitive data and internal systems to unauthorized access (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

A fix has been implemented in the plugin's repository as evidenced by the commit 7a281dcfc0868490d62caee54f3b743708fed7cf (GitHub Commit). Users are advised to update to a version newer than 2.8.11 when available.

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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