Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files <= 2.7.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Blind Server-Side Request Forgery via embeddoc Shortcode

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-1043
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published February 19, 2025
Last Updated February 20, 2025
Researcher theviper17y
Description

The Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.5 via the 'embeddoc' shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug embed-any-document (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.5
Patched Version
  • 2.7.6
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