NitroPack – Cache & Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Defer CSS & JavaScript, Lazy load Images, CVE-2025-8778
- CVE, Research URL
- Application
- 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
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max 1.18.5.
- Status
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vulnerable