Denial of Service Vulnerability in Safe SVG Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2019-18854

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Safe Svg
Vendor
CVE Published:
11 November 2019

What is CVE-2019-18854?

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Safe SVG plugin for WordPress prior to version 1.9.4. This flaw is related to how the plugin handles nested <use ... xlink:href="#identifier"> substrings, allowing for unlimited recursion. Attackers could exploit this behavior to cause a denial of service, leading to potential site downtime.

References

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9937
x_refsource_MISC
https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-19-113
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2185438
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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