High severity · published Nov 11, 2019
CVE-2019-18854
A Denial Of Service vulnerability exists in the safe-svg (aka Safe SVG) plugin through 1.9.4 for WordPress, related to unlimited recursion for a '<use
7.5
CVSS
2.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Denial Of Service vulnerability exists in the safe-svg (aka Safe SVG) plugin through 1.9.4 for WordPress, related to unlimited recursion for a '<use ... xlink:href="#identifier">' substring.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.6% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SS
Safe Svg · 10up
through 1.9.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18854
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18854
Third Party Advisory
https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-19-113
Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2185438
Release Notes
https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-svg/#developers
Third Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9937
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