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CVE-2025-8778

Published: Sep 10, 2025

Modified: Apr 8, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.3

MEDIUM

Description

The NitroPack plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the nitropack_set_compression_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.18.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the nitropack-enableCompression option and effectively change plugin compression settings.

Vendor	Product	Versions
nitropack	NitroPack – Performance, Page Speed & Cache Plugin for Core Web Vitals, CDN & Image Optimization	affected `0 - <= 1.18.4`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/750f35ce-0f1c-4a12-a7a0-2c217de277fd?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/nitropack/trunk/functions.php#L2907

https://wordpress.org/plugins/nitropack/#developers

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3354452%40nitropack&new=3354452%40nitropack&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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