CVE-2025-8723 is a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting the Cloudflare Image Resizing plugin for WordPress, versions 1.5.6 and earlier. This flaw stems from missing authentication and insufficient sanitization within the plugin's hook_rest_pre_dispatch() method, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary PHP code. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), it presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating high awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mecanik | Cloudflare Image Resizing – Optimize & Accelerate Your Images | >= 0, <= 1.5.6CNA affecteddefault unaffected |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.