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TI-2025-07982 Aliases CVE-2025-8723GHSA-52w9-qfc2-5xq5

Code injection in mecanik Cloudflare Image Resizing – Optimize & Accelerate Your Images

Priority HIGH 66CWE-94Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
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 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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.18034 97th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
mecanikCloudflare Image Resizing – Optimize & Accelerate Your Imagesup to 1.5.6—No fix listedCNA
  • Cloudflare Image Resizing – Optimize & Accelerate Your Images Vendormecanik Affected up to 1.5.6 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-8723
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-52w9-qfc2-5xq5

References

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