CVE-2019-17670

high-risk
Published 2019-10-17

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

Do I need to act?

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5.5% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Fix available
Upgrade to: 9b84a21d66d7da3edec388f49234c1c41daed9ad, 9db44754b9e4044690a6c32fd74b9d5fe26b07b2
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Affected Vendors

Debian Wordpress

References (16)

Third Party Advisory https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-secu...
Patch https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46472
Patch https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9db44754b9e4044690a6c32fd74b9d5fe2...
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00000.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00011.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00010.html
Release Notes https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/
Third Party Advisory https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9912
Third Party Advisory https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-secu...
Patch https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46472
Patch https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9db44754b9e4044690a6c32fd74b9d5fe2...
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00000.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00011.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00010.html
Release Notes https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/
Third Party Advisory https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9912
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 8/34 · Low
Exposure 10/34 · Low