VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-0235

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Published 2013-07-08 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.4

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/wordpress_pingback_access rank 300
Wordpress Pingback Locator
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.5.1+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 3.5.1+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 3.5.1+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 3.5.1+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 3.5.1+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpress wordpresswordpress{"endIncluding":"3.5.0"}
wordpress wordpresswordpress0.71
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.0
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.0.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.0.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.1.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.2.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.2.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.2.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.2.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.2.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.3.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.3.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5.1.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5.1.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5.1.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.6.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.7
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.8
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.9
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.10
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.11
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.5.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.7
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.7.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.5.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.5.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9.1.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.3.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.3.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.3.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.4.0
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.4.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.4.2

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.