CVE-2013-0235 Information

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.

Reference

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