CVE-2025-53457 - CVE House

Status published Medium CVE-2025-53457

WordPress SEO Backlink Monitor plugin <= 1.8.0 - Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability

4.4 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in activewebsight SEO Backlink Monitor seo-backlink-monitor allows Server Side Request Forgery.This issue affects SEO Backlink Monitor: from n/a through <= 1.8.0.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Nabil Irawan | Patchstack Bug Bounty Program

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/seo-backlink-monitor/vulnerability/wordpress-seo-backlink-monitor-plugin-1-6-0-server-side-request-forgery-ssrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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CVE-2025-53456

WordPress SEO Backlink Monitor plugin <= 1.8.0 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Medium 4.3

Affected Vendor

activewebsight

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Affected Software

SEO Backlink Monitor

Vulnerable Versions:

Timeline

Official Publish: September 22nd, 2025

Last Modified: April 28th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-918

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

Initial Access

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

Collection

T1005 Data from Local System