CVE-2025-8723 (GCVE-0-2025-8723)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-19 07:26
Modified
2025-08-19 13:19
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Summary
The Cloudflare Image Resizing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution due to missing authentication and insufficient sanitization within its hook_rest_pre_dispatch() method in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary PHP into the codebase, achieving remote code execution.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mecanik Cloudflare Image Resizing – Optimize & Accelerate Your Images Version: *   ≤ 1.5.6
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