Catalog Importer, Scraper & Crawler <= 5.1.4 - Unauthenticated PHP Code Injection
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-94.
Summary
The Catalog Importer, Scraper & Crawler plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP code injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.4. This is due to reliance on a guessable numeric token (e.g. ?key= 900001705) without proper authentication, combined with the unsafe use of eval() on user-supplied input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server via a forged request granted they can guess or brute-force the numeric key.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-8417
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-48xv-3p9w-g5g8
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3eb3533c-e33c-41db-b9cf-e9d71a0a5588?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/intelligent-importer/tags/5.1.4/megaimporter.php#L57
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/intelligent-importer/tags/5.1.4/communication.php#L20
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/intelligent-importer/tags/5.1.4/communication.php#L244
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/intelligent-importer/tags/5.1.4/communication.php#L272
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/intelligent-importer/tags/5.1.4/communication.php#L300
More idiatech vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-16656 WordPress Catalog Importer, Scraper & Crawler Plugin <= 5.1.3 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
Sources
- CVE-2025-8417 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-8417 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-48xv-3p9w-g5g8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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