CVE-2022-3590 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

WordPress is affected by an unauthenticated blind SSRF in the pingback feature. Because of a TOCTOU race condition between the validation checks and the HTTP request, attackers can reach internal hosts that are explicitly forbidden.

Published: 2022-12-14

Score: 5.9 Medium

EPSS: 90.8% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

WordPress

WordPress

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`4.1.30`	affected	≤ 6.1.1

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.1:-::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.90761.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://blog.sonarsource.com/wordpress-core-unauthenticated-blind-ssrf/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c8814e6e-78b3-4f63-a1d3-6906a84c1f11

History

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Wordpress Wordpress

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-12-14T08:33:40.434Z

Updated: 2025-04-21T14:12:02.956Z

Reserved: 2022-10-18T14:10:29.395Z

Link: CVE-2022-3590

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:14:02.086Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-14T09:15:09.260

Modified: 2025-04-21T15:15:51.600

Link: CVE-2022-3590

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-367

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