CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-3708
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-10-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.6 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-918
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.
Affected configurations
• google web stories (< 1.25.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://github.com/GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp/commit/3ad2099f95155d658624ffac2e34ce0da739e34b Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp/compare/v1.24.0...v1.25.0 Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/web-stories Product, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7817a840-325a-4709-8374-84bb32d98d0e?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories-continued/#CVE-2022-3708 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp/commit/3ad2099f95155d658624ffac2e34ce0da739e34b Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp/compare/v1.24.0...v1.25.0 Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/web-stories Product, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7817a840-325a-4709-8374-84bb32d98d0e?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories-continued/#CVE-2022-3708 Third Party Advisory