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CVE-2025-8723

mecanik Cloudflare Image Resizing – Optimize & Accelerate Your Images — Cloudflare Image Resizing <= 1.5.6 - Missing Authentication to Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via rest_pre_dispatch Hook

EPSS 18%CVSS 9.8

critical.is priorityof 100

CVSS 9.8 (CNA)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4 Not in CISA KEV+300.0 EPSS percentile 97.2.972 × 2019.4 No public exploit+100.0 SSVC exploitation: none+100.0

Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource

Cloudflare Image Resizing – Optimize & Accelerate Your Images≤ 1.5.6–CNA

Scores by source

Wordfence (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refwordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0f3b3c1a-1d45-4e2f-854a-171fe759257b?source=cve refwordpress.org/plugins/cf-image-resizing/#developers refplugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3337593 refplugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3341917