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Web Stories <= 1.24.0 — Server Side Request Forgery

CVE-2022-3708Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.24.0Update to 1.25.0 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Critical9.6
CVSS
9.6
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-918 SSRF
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Web Stories web-stories

  1. Affected≤ 1.24.0
  2. Patched in1.25.0

Update to 1.25.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.24.0. Version 1.25.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Web Stories.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.25.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Web Stories to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Aymen Borgi.

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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Web Stories

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.37.0Update to 1.38.0
CVE-2024-54317
Medium4.3Insufficient Authorization
<1.32.0Update to 1.32.0
CVE-2023-1979

Same weakness (SSRF)

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.6

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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