WP Scraper <= 5.8.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-9975
CVSS Medium (6.8)
Publicly Published October 10, 2025
Last Updated November 20, 2025
Researcher Valatty
Description

The WP Scraper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.1 via the wp_scraper_extract_content 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. On Cloud instances, this issue allows for metadata retrieving.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-scraper (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.8.1
Patched Version
  • 5.8.2
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