CVE-2019-17670

CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Server-side request forgery (SSRF)

9.8CVSS CRITICAL

Summary

WordPress before 5.2.4 has a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability because Windows paths are mishandled during certain validation of relative URLs.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactHigh

Integrity impactHigh

Availability impactHigh

Exploit probability (EPSS)6%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

WordPress

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46472 ↗

Additional information

NVD record
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46472Patch
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9db44754b9e4044690a6c32fd74b9d5fe26b07b2Patch
https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/Advisory
https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.htmlAdvisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00011.htmlAdvisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00010.htmlAdvisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9912Advisory