CVE-2013-0235

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 29.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-07-08 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.5.0; 0.71, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.2 (+69)

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.1
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23330
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/01/wordpress-3-5-1/
http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/wordpress-pingback-vulnerability/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904120
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.1
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23330
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/01/wordpress-3-5-1/
http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/wordpress-pingback-vulnerability/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904120

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