CVE-2013-0235

medium

Description

The XMLRPC API in WordPress before 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to send HTTP requests to intranet servers, and conduct port-scanning attacks, by specifying a crafted source URL for a pingback, related to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) issue.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2013-0268

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904120

http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/wordpress-pingback-vulnerability/

http://wordpress.org/news/2013/01/wordpress-3-5-1/

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23330

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-07-08

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N