Vulnerability · Published Oct 11, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-9975WP Scraper <= 5.8.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery
Medium 6.8
In plain English
A medium-severity server-side request forgery in WP Scraper from rico-macchi. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 28% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| rico-macchi | WP Scraper | 0 – through 5.8.1 |
Weakness: CWE-918 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4c72abf9-f63d-4460-8c9b-10e3f65b71ba?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-scraper/tags/5.8.1/wp-scraper.php#L688
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3396219%40wp-scraper&new=3396219%40wp-scraper&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=