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Vulnerability details: VCID-79v7-pm7j-z7cu
Vulnerability ID VCID-79v7-pm7j-z7cu
Aliases CVE-2013-0235
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.5836 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-0235
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-0235
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0235
698916 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698916
Data source Metasploit
Description This module will scan for wordpress sites with the Pingback API enabled. By interfacing with the API an attacker can cause the wordpress site to port scan an external target and return results. Refer to the wordpress_pingback_portscanner module. This issue was fixed in wordpress 3.5.1
Note 
Reliability:
  - unknown-reliability
Stability:
  - unknown-stability
SideEffects:
  - unknown-side-effects
Ransomware campaign use Unknown
Source URL https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/tree/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/wordpress_pingback_access.rb
There are no known vectors.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.98229
EPSS Score 0.5836
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T13:41:36.827967+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.6.0