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CVE-2025-8625: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Copypress Rest API plugin for WordPress contains a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-8625) affecting versions 1.1 to 1.2. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on September 29, 2025, with a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical). The plugin was subsequently closed on September 26, 2025, pending a full security review (NVD, WordPress).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from two critical security issues: a hard-coded JWT signing key implementation and insufficient file type validation in the copyreap_handle_image() function. When no secret is defined, the plugin defaults to a hard-coded JWT signing key. Additionally, the plugin lacks proper validation for file types that can be fetched and saved as attachments (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to forge valid tokens to gain elevated privileges and upload arbitrary files, including PHP scripts, through the image handler. This can lead to remote code execution on affected WordPress installations (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The plugin has been temporarily closed and removed from the WordPress plugin repository pending a full security review. Users are advised to immediately remove the plugin from their WordPress installations until a patched version is released (WordPress).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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