CVE-2019-17669

CRITICAL

Wordpress < 5.2.4 - SSRF

Title source: rule

Description

WordPress before 5.2.4 has a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability because URL validation does not consider the interpretation of a name as a series of hex characters.

References (9)

[Third Party Advisory] https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9912

[Release Notes, Vendor Advisory] https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/

[Third Party Advisory] https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.html

[Vendor Advisory] https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46475

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/608d39faed63ea212b6c6cdf9fe2bef92e2120ea

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00000.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0838

EPSS Percentile 92.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-918

Status published

Affected Products (4)

wordpress/wordpress < 5.2.4

debian/debian_linux

Timeline

Published Oct 17, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026