{"id":225475,"date":"2025-11-20T01:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/w3-total-cache-wordpress-plugin-vulnerable-to-php-command-injection"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:24:32","slug":"w3-total-cache-wordpress-plugin-vulnerable-to-php-command-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/w3-total-cache-wordpress-plugin-vulnerable-to-php-command-injection","title":{"rendered":"W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin vulnerable to PHP command injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/w3-total-cache-wordpress-plugin-vulnerable-to-php-command-injection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A critical flaw in the W3 Total Cache (W3TC) WordPress plugin can be exploited to run PHP commands on the server by posting a comment that contains a malicious payload.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2025-9501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2025\u20139501<\/a>, affects all versions of the W3TC plugin prior to 2.8.13 and is described as an unauthenticated command injection.<\/p>\n<p>W3TC is installed on more than one million websites to increase performance and reduce load times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critical flaw in the W3 Total Cache (W3TC) WordPress plugin can be exploited to run PHP commands on the server by posting a comment that contains a malicious payload. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025\u20139501, affects all versions of the W3TC plugin prior to 2.8.13 and is described as an unauthenticated command injection. W3TC is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}