CVE-2019-18854

HIGH

Safe SVG < 1.9.4 - Denial of Service via Uncontrolled Recursion in xlink:href Attribute

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A Denial Of Service vulnerability exists in the safe-svg (aka Safe SVG) plugin through 1.9.4 for WordPress, related to unlimited recursion for a '<use ... xlink:href="#identifier">' substring.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9937
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-19-113
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2185438
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-svg/#developers

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0261
EPSS Percentile 83.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (1)
10up/safe_svg < 1.9.4
Published Nov 11, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026