Performance Monitor <= 1.0.6 - Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery via 'url' Parameter
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
The Performance Monitor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.6. This is due to insufficient validation of the 'url' parameter in the '/wp-json/performance-monitor/v1/curl_data' REST API endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations, including internal services, via the Gopher protocol and other dangerous protocols. This can be exploited to achieve Remote Code Execution by chaining with services like Redis.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
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-2026-1648
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4vr9-8jj4-gfwv
References
Other 4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c8f42f17-bce2-421e-9031-bfa0f8c26b2a?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/performance-monitor/tags/1.0.6/includes/class-rest-callback.php#L168
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/performance-monitor/tags/1.0.6/admin/class-curl.php#L50
- https://github.com/assetnote/blind-ssrf-chains
Sources
- CVE-2026-1648 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-1648 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4vr9-8jj4-gfwv · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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