CVE-2025-1970

Export and Import Users and Customers <= 2.6.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery via validate_file Function

2025-03-21 23:15
HayMiz

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.6.3
Affected Plugin
Export and Import Users and Customers
Affected Version
<= 2.6.2
CVSS
7.6High
Weakness type
CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE
CVE-2025-1970
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At a glance

CVE-2025-1970 is a high-severity Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the Export and Import Users and Customers WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.6.2. It carries a CVSS score of 7.6 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Administrator level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.6.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2025, reported by HayMiz.

Vulnerability Overview

The Export and Import Users and Customers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.2 via the validate_file() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.

CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Export and Import Users and Customers <= 2.6.2 carries this weakness at validate_file(), and reaching it takes an account at Administrator level or above. Server-side request forgery means the application fetches a URL supplied by the caller, turning the server into a proxy for requests the attacker could not make directly.

The request originates from inside the hosting network, which is how these flaws reach cloud metadata endpoints, internal admin panels and services that trust local traffic. For Export and Import Users and Customers the fix is 2.6.3: builds <= 2.6.2 are affected, anything from 2.6.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.6.3, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Administrator access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Export and Import Users and Customers 2.6.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1970https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5a4d7d40-8e0e-4251-8e25-3fd4ebd3a93ehttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1970

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