NitroPack – Cache & Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Defer CSS & JavaScript, Lazy load Images, CVE-2025-8778

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-8778
Home page URL: Security reports for NitroPack – Cache & Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Defer CSS & JavaScript, Lazy load Images
Application: NitroPack – Cache & Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Defer CSS & JavaScript, Lazy load Images
Published on: Sep 10, 2025
Research Description: The NitroPack plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the nitropack_set_compression_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.18.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the nitropack-enableCompression option and effectively change plugin compression settings.
Affected versions: max 1.18.5.
Status: vulnerable

NitroPack – Cache &amp; Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Defer CSS &amp; JavaScript, Lazy load Images, CVE-2025-8778