Detections
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CVE-2019-18854

high

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

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9937

https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-svg/#developers

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2185438

https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-19-113

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-11

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00629