WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Webmention < 5.7.0 - Unauthenticated Blind Server-Side Request Forgery

Description

The Webmention plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.2 in the 'MF2::parse_authorpage' function via the 'Receiver::post' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 5.7.0

References

Classification

Type
SSRF
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Duong Quang Hao
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-04-01 (about 3 months ago)
Added
2026-04-01 (about 3 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-04-02 (about 3 months ago)

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