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CVE-2019-18854

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

A Denial Of Service vulnerability exists in the safe-svg (aka Safe SVG) plugin through 1.9.4 for WordPress, related to unlimited recursion for a '<use ... xlink:href="#identifier">' substring.

Affected products

• Safe SVG: through 1.9.4

References

• https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-19-113
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2185438
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-svg/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9937
• https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-19-113
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2185438
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-svg/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9937

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