WordPress security changelog
HIGH CVE-2025-8417 Deferred

Catalog Importer, Scraper & Crawler: Code execution

Catalog Importer, Scraper & Crawler is affected by code execution. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Successful exploitation can run attacker-controlled code in the WordPress hosting account.

CVE / CNA score 8.1 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Catalog Importer, Scraper & Crawler
Plugin slug
intelligent-importer
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Sep 11, 2025
Weakness
CWE-94 — Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

This CVE was published Sep 11, 2025 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Catalog Importer, Scraper & Crawler to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical description

The Catalog Importer, Scraper & Crawler plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP code injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.4. This is due to reliance on a guessable numeric token (e.g. ?key= 900001705) without proper authentication, combined with the unsafe use of eval() on user-supplied input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server via a forged request granted they can guess or brute-force the numeric key.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Primary and upstream sources