WordPress Crayon Syntax Highlighter Plugin <= 2.8.4 is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Patch priority: low
Low priority vPatch available
Vulnerable version
<= 2.8.4 Vulnerable version
Not fixed
No official fix available Fixed version

12 September 2023

Risks

CVSS 6.4

6.4

Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

This could allow a malicious actor to cause a website to execute website requests to an arbitrary domain of the attacker. This could allow a malicious actor to find sensitive information of other services running on the system.

This is a general description of this vulnerability type, specific impact varies case by case. CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way, but it is not ideal for WordPress.

Solutions

This security issue has a low severity impact and is unlikely to be exploited.

Details

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Timeline

Early warning sent out

Early warning sent out to Patchstack customers

12 Sep 2023
Published by Patchstack

Published by Patchstack

14 Sep 2023

Over 70% of all known WordPress vulnerabilities were originally published by Patchstack in 2023 and hundreds of popular plugins such as Elementor, RankMath and WProcket have set Patchstack as their official security partner.

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