6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.142 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.7%
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.
codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.1
core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23330
wordpress.org/news/2013/01/wordpress-3-5-1/
www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/wordpress-pingback-vulnerability/
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904120