CVE-2025-1043 Server-side request forgery in Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files
Authenticated contributors can exploit a shortcode to perform server-side request forgery, allowing access to internal services.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-1043?
CVE-2025-1043 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in awsmin Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files, published on 20 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.5 via the 'embeddoc' shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-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.
Weakness: CWE-918
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1043?
How do I fix CVE-2025-1043?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1043 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.
Is CVE-2025-1043 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1043 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7j24-fpjp-3cmx.