CVE-2020-28978The Canto plugin 1.3.0 for WordPress contains blind SSRF vulnerability. It allows an unauthenticated attacker can make a request to any…
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 15.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Canto plugin 1.3.0 for WordPress contains blind SSRF vulnerability. It allows an unauthenticated attacker can make a request to any internal and external server via /includes/lib/tree.php?subdomain=SSRF.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Wordpress Plugin Canto 1.3.0 - Blind SSRF (Unauthenticated) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 49189webapps, multiplepublished 4 Dec 2020Not verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 15.4% · top 3.2% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- https://github.com/CantoDAM/Canto-Wordpress-Plugin (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.canto.com/integrations/wordpress/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/canto/#developers (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://gist.github.com/p4nk4jv/87aebd999ce4b28063943480e95fd9e0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160358/WordPress-Canto-1.3.0-Server-Side-Request-Forgery.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-21361 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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