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WordPress Plugin: instant-images: CVE-2023-27451: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 2, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

Description

The Instant Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 5.1.0.1via the instant_images_download function. This can allow authenticated attackers, with author-level permissions and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Solution

instant-images-plugin-cve-2023-27451
Title
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