W3 Total Cache before 0.9.2.5 generates hash keys insecurely which allows remote attackers to predict the values of the hashes.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• boldgrid w3 total cachebefore 0.9.2.5

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (redhat). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• W3 Total Cache

  • 0.9.2.5affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2026-57623WordPress W3 Total Cache plugin <= 2.9.4 - Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability
  36Monitor
• CVE-2026-27384WordPress W3 Total Cache plugin <= 2.9.1 - Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability
  36Monitor
• CVE-2019-6715pub/sns.php in the W3 Total Cache plugin before 0.9.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the SubscribeURL fie
  36Monitor
• CVE-2024-12365W3 Total Cache <= 2.8.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Server-Side Request Forgery
  35Monitor
• CVE-2012-6077W3 Total Cache before 0.9.2.5 allows remote attackers to retrieve password hash information due to insecure storage of database cache files.
  32Monitor
• CVE-2026-9282W3 Total Cache <= 2.9.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read via 'f_array[]' Parameter
  31Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.