CVE-2019-18854 — A Denial Of Service vulnerability exists in the safe-svg (aka Safe SVG) plugin t

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-11-11T14:36:02.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T02:02:39.620Z

09References

• wpvulndb.com — https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9937
• fortiguard.com — https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-19-113
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2185438
• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-svg/#developers