What happened
The WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher WordPress plugin before 2.8.27 does not perform a capability check before fetching a user-supplied URL and rendering the response, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to force the server to issue requests to internal-only hosts and read the responses back.
Affected versions
WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher: before 2.8.27 (semver) Fixed: See vendor advisory.
Why it matters
Review the vendor advisory and exposure of the affected product to determine operational impact.
Detection & mitigation
- Apply vendor-provided updates or mitigations.
- Review affected product exposure and access logs.
Public PoC references
No public PoC reference has passed the current publication threshold.
Source timeline
CVE record published by NVDView source ↗
Record history
Record created from the first normalized source observation.
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