PT-2013-2177 · WordPress · Wordpress

Gennady Kovshenin + 1 · Published 2013-07-08 · Updated 2013-07-08 · CVE-2013-0235

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 3.5.1

Description The issue 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. This affects the XMLRPC API.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.5.1, update to version 3.5.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the XMLRPC API until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-0235

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 11

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/wordpress_pingback_access.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23330 · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0235 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0235 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0235 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-0235 · Vendor Advisory
• http://acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/wordpress-pingback-vulnerability · Note
• http://wordpress.org/news/2013/01/wordpress-3-5-1 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0235 · Note
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.1 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904120 · Note