Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2024-03-06 11:10
Modified
2025-05-20 10:02
Summary
WordPress Authenticated XXE attack when installation is running PHP 8
Details

Wordpress is an open source CMS. A user with the ability to upload files (like an Author) can exploit an XML parsing issue in the Media Library leading to XXE attacks. This requires WordPress installation to be using PHP 8. Access to internal files is possible in a successful XXE attack. This has been patched in WordPress version 5.7.1, along with the older affected versions via a minor release. We strongly recommend you keep auto-updates enabled.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "wordpress",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/wordpress"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "5.6.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "5.7.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-29447"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "Wordpress is an open source CMS. A user with the ability to upload files (like an Author) can exploit an XML parsing issue in the Media Library leading to XXE attacks. This requires WordPress installation to be using PHP 8. Access to internal files is possible in a successful XXE attack. This has been patched in WordPress version 5.7.1, along with the older affected versions via a minor release. We strongly recommend you keep auto-updates enabled.",
  "id": "BIT-wordpress-2021-29447",
  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:10:50.108Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163148/XML-External-Entity-Via-MP3-File-Upload-On-WordPress.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164198/WordPress-5.7-Media-Library-XML-Injection.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://blog.sonarsource.com/wordpress-xxe-security-vulnerability/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-rv47-pc52-qrhh"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00017.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://wordpress.org/news/category/security/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4896"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29447"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "WordPress Authenticated XXE attack when installation is running PHP 8"
}


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