aresit Compress Plugin up to 7.10.09 on WordPress cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in aresit Compress Plugin up to 7.10.09. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-17608. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in aresit Compress Plugin up to 7.10.09. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-17608 since 07/27/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-59924). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• aresit

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• Compress Plugin

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• 7.10.09

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