CVE-2013-0235: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 29.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.5.0; version 0.71 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1.1 only; …

Published 2013-07-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.