CVE-2025-2109: WP Compress <= 6.30.15 - Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery via init Function

5.8 CVSS

Description

The WP Compress – Instant Performance & Speed Optimization plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.30.15 via the init() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query information from internal services.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-2109

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Problem Types

CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Affected Products

Vendor: smartersite

Product: WP Compress – Instant Performance & Speed Optimization

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.06% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 19.96% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-22 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2109
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/10b9d703-de9d-472a-bdfb-bc9a41bf375e?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-compress-image-optimizer/tags/6.30.15/wp-compress-core.php#L994
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-compress-image-optimizer/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3254259/

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