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CVE-2019-17669

critical

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9912

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00000.html

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/608d39faed63ea212b6c6cdf9fe2bef92e2120ea

https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.html

https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-7974

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46475

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-10-17

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05243