WP Compress <= 6.30.15 - Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery via init Function

5.8
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-2109
CVSS 5.8 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 24, 2025
Last Updated March 25, 2025
Researcher mikemyers

Description

The WP Compress – Instant Performance & Speed Optimization plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.30.15 via the init() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query information from internal services.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Compress – Instant Performance & Speed Optimization

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-compress-image-optimizer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 6.30.16, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 6.30.15
Patched Version
  • 6.30.16

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