WordPress Skitter Slideshow Plugin <= 2.5.2 is vulnerable to a medium priority Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

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<= 2.5.2Vulnerable version(s)
No official fix availableFixed version
WordPress plugin
No VDP
19 Aug, 2024

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Risks

CVSS 7.2

This vulnerability is moderately dangerous and expected to become exploited.

7.2

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.

CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.

Solutions

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Details

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WordPress plugin
No VDP

Timeline

Early warning sent out to Patchstack customers

19 Aug, 2024

Published by Patchstack

19 Aug, 2024

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