CVE-2025-11970 Server-side request forgery in Emplibot – AI Content Writer with Keyword Research, Infographics, and Linking | SEO Optimized | Fully Automated
Authenticated administrators can exploit SSRF in the Emplibot WordPress plugin to query and modify internal services via arbitrary web requests.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-11970?
CVE-2025-11970 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Emplibot – AI Content Writer with Keyword Research, Infographics, and Linking | SEO Optimized | Fully Automated, published on 13 Dec 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Emplibot – AI Content Writer with Keyword Research, Infographics, and Linking | SEO Optimized | Fully Automated plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9 via the emplibot_call_webhook_with_error() and emplibot_process_zip_data() functions. 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.
Weakness: CWE-918
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11970?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11970?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11970 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-2025-11970 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11970 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-frfj-9fcw-2cxw.