CVE-2025-68030
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68030 is a high-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 15.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-68030 is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-918, in the WP Messiah Frontis Blocks WordPress plugin (frontis-blocks). This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.1.5. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N), highlighting its high severity due to network vector, low attack complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction needed, and changed scope with low confidentiality and integrity impacts.
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this SSRF vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and without user interaction. Exploitation enables the attacker to trick the server into making unauthorized requests, potentially accessing internal resources or services, resulting in limited confidentiality and integrity impacts as per the CVSS scoring.
Patchstack has published an advisory with details on this vulnerability, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/frontis-blocks/vulnerability/wordpress-frontis-blocks-plugin-1-1-5-server-side-request-forgery-ssrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-3994
Vulnerability details
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in WP Messiah Frontis Blocks frontis-blocks allows Server Side Request Forgery.This issue affects Frontis Blocks: from n/a through <= 1.1.5.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
SSRF in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application) for remote unauthenticated access to internal resources.
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces information flow rules that can explicitly block the plugin from issuing arbitrary outbound requests to attacker-supplied URLs.
Requires validation of all URL and request parameters supplied to the plugin, directly stopping the malformed inputs that trigger SSRF.
Boundary-protection mechanisms can restrict or monitor the plugin's outbound connections to internal or unauthorized destinations.