External Media without Import <= 1.1.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Blind Server-Side Request Forgery

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-1398
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published April 19, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Luan Pedersini
Description

The External Media without Import WordPress plugin through 1.1.2 does not have any authorisation and does to ensure that medias added via URLs are external medias, which could allow any authenticated users, such as subscriber to perform blind SSRF attacks

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug external-media-without-import (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.2
Patched Version
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