CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-18854

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Nov 11, 2019 | Modified: Oct 24, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Safe_svg 10up * 1.9.4 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References