Vulnerability CVE-2013-0235
Published: 2013-07-08   Modified: 2013-07-09

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.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 
Wordpre2000ss -> Wordpress 

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