PT-2019-5216 · WordPress · Wordpress

CVE-2019-17669 · Published 2019-09-11 · Updated 2023-02-04

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 5.2.4

Description The issue is related to a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. This occurs because URL validation does not consider the interpretation of a name as a series of hex characters. Exploitation of this issue may allow a remote attacker to access confidential data, compromise data integrity, and cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.2.4, update to version 5.2.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to sensitive data and configuring the server to validate URLs more strictly until a patch is applied. Avoid using URLs that could be interpreted as a series of hex characters in the affected API endpoints until the issue is resolved.

Fix

SSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-918

Related Identifiers

BDU:2020-01945

CVE-2019-17669

DLA-1980-1

DSA-4599-1

DSA-4677-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 21

• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/608d39faed63ea212b6c6cdf9fe2bef92e2120ea · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17669 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-01945 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4599-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-17669 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17669 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17669 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17669 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1980-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4677-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599 · Vendor Advisory
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46475 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17669 · Vendor Advisory