CVE-2022-3708

9.6CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor
Google
Status
Web Stories
Vendor
CVE Published:
28 October 2022

Summary

The Web Stories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in versions up to, and including 1.24.0 due to insufficient validation of URLs supplied via the 'url' parameter found via the /v1/hotlink/proxy REST API Endpoint. This makes it possible for authenticated users to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Affected Version(s)

Web Stories * <= 1.24.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/web-stories
https://github.com/GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp/compa...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.6
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Aymen Borgi
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