Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-13378

Medium

Published: 27 November 2025

Published
27 November 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0015 35.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-13378 is a medium-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Network Service Discovery (T1046); ranked at the 35.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as LLM Application Platforms; in the Supply Chain and Deployment risk domain.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The AI ChatBot with ChatGPT and Content Generator by AYS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.0 via the ays_chatgpt_pinecone_upsert function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make…

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web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

CWE(s)
CWE-918

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
LLM Application Platforms
Risk Domain
Supply Chain and Deployment
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Matched keywords: ai, chatgpt

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1046 Network Service Discovery Discovery
Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of services running on remote hosts and local network infrastructure devices, including those that may be vulnerable to remote software exploitation.
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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

SSRF vulnerability enables exploitation of public-facing WordPress plugin (T1190) and facilitates discovery of internal network services (T1046) via unauthenticated arbitrary web requests to internal locations.

Affected Assets

Wordpress
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-918

Penetration testing attempts server-side requests to internal resources, identifying SSRF weaknesses for remediation.

SC-7 Boundary Protection
addresses: CWE-918

Outbound connections to external resources can be monitored and limited at the boundary, reducing SSRF impact.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-918

Validates server-side URLs and resource references to block SSRF attempts.

SI-4 System Monitoring
addresses: CWE-918

Detects server-side request forgery through monitoring of unexpected outbound connections.

References