Vulnerabilities and security researches forwp-crontrol wp-crontrol

Jun 07, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-28850
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Crontrol
Application: WP Crontrol
Date: Mar 26, 2024
Research Description: WP Crontrol controls the cron events on WordPress websites. WP Crontrol includes a feature that allows administrative users to create events in the WP-Cron system that store and execute PHP code subject to the restrictive security permissions documented here. While there is no known vulnerability in this feature on its own, there exists potential for this feature to be vulnerable to RCE if it were specifically targeted via vulnerability chaining that exploited a separate SQLi (or similar) vulnerability. This is exploitable on a site if one of the below preconditions are met, the site is vulnerable to a writeable SQLi vulnerability in any plugin, theme, or WordPress core, the site's database is compromised at the hosting level, the site is vulnerable to a method of updating arbitrary options in the wp_options table, or the site is vulnerable to a method of triggering an arbitrary action, filter, or function with control of the parameters. As a hardening measure, WP Crontrol version 1.16.2 ships with a new feature that prevents tampering of the code stored in a PHP cron event.
Affected versions: max 1.16.2.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: ee606200d06d026e615be1bbc222571330834d0d
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Crontrol
Application: WP Crontrol
Date: Aug 21, 2015
Research Description: WP Crontrol [wp-crontrol] < 1.3 WordPress Crontrol Plugin <= 1.2.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Because of this vulnerability, authenticated administrators can store HTML and JS code. Vulnerable parameters: "id[hookname]", "id[sig]", "id[next_run]", "id[args][code]". Update the plugin.
Affected versions: max 1.3.
Status: vulnerable

Aug 22, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-8678
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Crontrol
Application: WP Crontrol
Date: Aug 22, 2025
Research Description: The WP Crontrol plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to blind Server-Side Request Forgery in versions 1.17.0 to 1.19.1 via the 'wp_remote_request' function. 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.
Affected versions: max 1.19.2.
Status: vulnerable

Jun 15, 2026

CVE, Research URL: 8cd46db1-968c-4c7a-879b-5c22dad48377
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Crontrol
Application: WP Crontrol
Date: -
Research Description: WP Crontrol [wp-crontrol] < 1.3 WP Crontrol <= 1.2.3 - Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) The WP Crontrol WordPress plugin was affected by an Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) security vulnerability.
Affected versions: max 1.3.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: 7188282abdcdcbf8c8271b9e6c71b412d0caf47d
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Crontrol
Application: WP Crontrol
Date: Aug 21, 2015
Research Description: WP Crontrol [wp-crontrol] < 1.3 WP Crontrol < 1.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting The WP Crontrol for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘id’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected versions: max 1.3.
Status: vulnerable

Sep 22, 2026

PSC, Research URL: PSC-2026-65702
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Crontrol
Application: WP Crontrol
Date: Sep 22, 2026
Research Description: Cron management plugins can inspect, create, pause, delete, and immediately execute scheduled tasks that affect many parts of a WordPress site. WP Crontrol version 1.21.2 has successfully completed the CleanTalk Plugin Security Certification process and received PSC-2026-65702. The review focused on authorization for event management, request integrity, callback and argument display, custom schedules, URL validation, bulk actions, and exported event data.
Affected versions: Min 1.21.2, max 1.21.2.
Status: SAFE & CERTIFIED