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CVE-2022-3590

Exploitation: poc CVSS 5.9 MEDIUM

CVSS base score: 5.9 (Medium) CISA · v3.1

Score assigned by CISA's Vulnrichment program; the vendor's CVE record did not include one.

Vendor: WordPress   Product: WordPress

Description

WordPress is affected by an unauthenticated blind SSRF in the pingback feature. Because of a TOCTOU race condition between the validation checks and the HTTP request, attackers can reach internal hosts that are explicitly forbidden.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 209 points from 2022-12-17, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 91.2% on 2026-02-21.

Published Applicability

Red Hat CSAF/VEX 0 affected · 0 fixed · 1 not affected
OSV.dev (incl. GHSA) 8 affected · 4 fixed · 0 not affected
CVE List v5 (CNA container) 1 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Exploit / Pen Test
Network IDS/IPS
none published
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

Distribution Status

Debian · wordpress bookworm trixie forky sid scope: local

Where the distribution has shipped a fix, and in which version. Green means the release has resolved it, amber that it is still open. Data from the Debian Security Tracker, used under Debian's MIT / GPLv2+ terms. Debian is upstream of several other distributions, so a fix here often precedes theirs.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

poc
no
partial
5.9 MEDIUM
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
2025-04-21

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA Vulnrichment 2025-04-21 source record →

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2024-09-18 People's Republic of China-Linked Actors Compromise Routers and IoT Devices for Botnet Operations FBI

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References