Web Stories <= 1.24.0 - Server Side Request Forgery

9.6
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-3708
CVSS 9.6 (Critical)
Publicly Published October 26, 2022
Last Updated December 20, 2022
Researcher Aymen Borgi

Description

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.

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Vulnerability Details for Web Stories

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug web-stories (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.25.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.24.0
Patched Version
  • 1.25.0

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