🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-17608

MEDIUM 6.5

WP Compress <= 7.10.09 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Options Deletion

CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The WP Compress – Instant Performance & Speed Optimization plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 7.10.09. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the (top-level template code) function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary WordPress options, including critical ones such as siteurl, home, active_plugins, template, and stylesheet, causing site outage or a full plugin and theme reset via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CWE CWE-352
Vendor aresit
Product wp compress – instant performance & speed optimization
Published Aug 16, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

aresit / WP Compress – Instant Performance & Speed Optimization
0 ≤ 7.10.09

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/67013cc9-c20f-4137-9a4d-e7d700899131?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-compress-image-optimizer/tags/7.10.03/templates/admin/debug_tool.php#L551 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-compress-image-optimizer/tags/7.10.03/templates/admin/debug_tool.php#L550 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-compress-image-optimizer/tags/7.10.03/templates/admin/advanced_settings_v4.php#L2378 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-compress-image-optimizer/tags/7.10.03/classes/menu.class.php#L335 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-compress-image-optimizer/tags/7.10.03/classes/menu.class.php#L239 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3641964%40wp-compress-image-optimizer&new=3641964%40wp-compress-image-optimizer

Credits

Wordfence PRISM