{"id":"CVE-2013-0235","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2013-0235","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T07:28:51.387Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2013-07-08T20:55:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:49:01.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["wordpress/wordpress"],"epss":{"score":0.29565,"percentile":0.98196,"date":"2026-11-04","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.1","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23330","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://wordpress.org/news/2013/01/wordpress-3-5-1/","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/wordpress-pingback-vulnerability/","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904120","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23330","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://wordpress.org/news/2013/01/wordpress-3-5-1/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/wordpress-pingback-vulnerability/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904120","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0235","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}