PT-2025-29219 · WordPress · Broken Link Notifier

Jfriedli · Published 2025-07-11 · Updated 2025-07-16 · CVE-2025-6851

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Broken Link Notifier plugin for WordPress versions prior to 1.3.1

Description: The plugin is susceptible to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). This allows unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application. This can be used to query and modify information from internal services via the ajax blinks() function, which calls the check url status code() function.

Recommendations: Update the Broken Link Notifier plugin to version 1.3.1 or later.

Fix

SSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-918

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-6851

Affected Products

Broken Link Notifier

References · 9

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3323864%40broken-link-notifier&new=3323864%40broken-link-notifier&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6851 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-6851 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0f76c9f8-c57a-4875-b581-f67c9c60021c?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1943663688918954479 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvetracker/27548 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/128510 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1943668127566614954 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/pdnuclei_bot/status/1945423179050307846 · Twitter Post