CVE-2013-0235
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.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 29.6%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 29.57% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- wordpress/wordpress
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 29.6% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.1
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23330Exploit, Patch
- 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/23330Exploit, Patch
- 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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.