🛡️ CVE-2022-3708
🔴 CVSS 9.6 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-918 NVD
9.6
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-918
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-10-28
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-04-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
web-stories 1.25.0

References

Product, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://wordpress.org/plugins/web-stories
Product, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://wordpress.org/plugins/web-stories

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