CVE-2025-30997: Car Repair Services SSRF Vulnerability

CVE-2025-30997 Overview

CVE-2025-30997 is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting the SmartDataSoft Car Repair Services WordPress theme. The flaw impacts all versions of car-repair-services up to and including 5.0. Attackers can coerce the vulnerable web application into issuing HTTP requests to arbitrary destinations, including internal network resources not intended for external access. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery) and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.4.

Critical Impact
Successful exploitation allows unauthenticated attackers to make the WordPress server send crafted requests to internal or external systems, potentially exposing internal services and metadata endpoints.

Affected Products

SmartDataSoft Car Repair Services WordPress theme (car-repair-services)
Versions from n/a through 5.0 (inclusive)
WordPress sites deploying the vulnerable theme

Discovery Timeline

2025-06-06 - CVE-2025-30997 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-30997

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability resides in the Car Repair Services WordPress theme, which fails to validate or restrict URLs supplied to server-side HTTP request functions. An unauthenticated remote attacker can supply a crafted URL parameter that the theme processes without appropriate allowlisting or destination filtering. The web server then issues the outbound request on the attacker's behalf, returning response data or side effects to the attacker.

SSRF conditions in WordPress themes typically expose cloud metadata endpoints, internal admin interfaces, and services bound to loopback or private RFC1918 ranges. According to the Patchstack advisory, the attack complexity is high and the scope changes when exploited, indicating impact beyond the vulnerable component.

Root Cause

The root cause is missing input validation on user-controllable URL or resource parameters passed to server-side fetch routines in the theme. The application does not enforce a scheme allowlist, host allowlist, or DNS resolution checks before initiating outbound HTTP requests. This allows arbitrary destinations, including http://169.254.169.254/, http://127.0.0.1/, and internal hostnames, to be reached from the WordPress server context.

Attack Vector

Exploitation occurs over the network without authentication or user interaction. An attacker sends an HTTP request to the vulnerable theme endpoint containing a URL parameter pointing to a target of their choice. The WordPress server processes the parameter and issues the outbound request, and response content or timing differences may be observable to the attacker. Refer to the Patchstack WordPress Vulnerability Report for further technical context.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-30997

Indicators of Compromise

Outbound HTTP requests from the WordPress server to internal IP ranges such as 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, or 192.168.0.0/16
Requests originating from the web server process to cloud metadata endpoints like 169.254.169.254
Unexpected user-agents such as WordPress/* reaching internal services in proxy or firewall logs
HTTP access logs showing repeated requests to theme endpoints with URL-like parameters

Detection Strategies

Inspect WordPress access logs for requests targeting car-repair-services theme paths containing URL parameters or encoded schemes
Correlate egress firewall telemetry with the WordPress host's process identity to flag anomalous outbound destinations
Deploy web application firewall (WAF) rules that flag URL parameters resolving to private IP space or metadata addresses

Monitoring Recommendations

Enable outbound network egress filtering and log all outbound HTTP requests from web tier hosts
Alert on any request from a WordPress server to 169.254.169.254 or internal admin panels
Ingest web server, WAF, and network telemetry into a centralized SIEM for correlation across the request lifecycle

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-30997

Immediate Actions Required

Identify all WordPress instances running the SmartDataSoft Car Repair Services theme at version 5.0 or earlier
Restrict or disable the theme until a vendor patch is applied
Enforce strict egress filtering on the WordPress server to block traffic to internal ranges and cloud metadata endpoints
Enable IMDSv2 on AWS instances to require session tokens for metadata access

Patch Information

At the time of publication, the Patchstack advisory lists affected versions from n/a through 5.0 without a confirmed fixed release. Administrators should monitor the Patchstack WordPress Vulnerability Report and the SmartDataSoft vendor channels for an updated theme release addressing CVE-2025-30997.

Workarounds

Place the WordPress site behind a WAF configured to block URL parameters pointing at private or loopback addresses
Deploy an outbound proxy that enforces destination allowlisting for HTTP requests originating from the WordPress server
Apply virtual patching via Patchstack or equivalent WordPress security services until an official theme update is released
Remove or replace the vulnerable theme if no patch is available and the functionality is not required

bash

# Example nginx egress block for WordPress host to prevent SSRF to metadata endpoint
iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner www-data -d 169.254.169.254 -j REJECT
iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner www-data -d 127.0.0.0/8 -j REJECT
iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner www-data -d 10.0.0.0/8 -j REJECT
iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner www-data -d 172.16.0.0/12 -j REJECT
iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner www-data -d 192.168.0.0/16 -j REJECT