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### Impact The WP Crontrol plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Blind Server-Side Request Forgery in versions 1.17.0 to 1.19.1 via the `wp_remote_request()` function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. It is not possible for a user without Administrator level access to exploit this weakness. It is not possible for an Administrator performing an attack to see the HTTP response to the request to their chosen URL, nor is it possible for them to time the response. ### Patches WP Crontrol version 1.19.2 makes the following changes to harden the URL cron event feature: * URLs are now validated for safety with the `wp_http_validate_url()` function upon saving. The user is informed if they save a cron event containing a URL that is not considered safe, and the HTTP request will ...

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### Impact Duplicate logging of the input values in the `fetch:template` action in the Scaffolder meant that some of the secrets were not properly redacted. If you're not passing through `${{ secrets.x }}` to `fetch:template` there is no impact. ### Patches This issue has been resolved in `2.1.1` of the `scaffolder-backend` plugin. ### Workarounds Template Authors can remove the use of `${{ secrets }}` being used as an argument to `fetch:template`. ### References If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: Open an issue in the [Backstage repository](https://github.com/backstage/backstage) Visit our Discord, linked to in [Backstage README](https://github.com/backstage/backstage)

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