Safe SVG <= 1.9.4 - Denial of Service

6.5
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2019-18855
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 5, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Nguyen Thanh Nguyen

Description

A Denial Of Service vulnerability exists in the safe-svg (aka Safe SVG) plugin through 1.9.4 for WordPress, related to potentially unwanted elements or attributes.

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Vulnerability Details for Safe SVG

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug safe-svg (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.9.5, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.9.4
Patched Version
  • 1.9.5

Recent vulnerabilities in Safe SVG

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Safe SVG <= 2.5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Insecure Direct Object Reference CVE-2026-94672 4.3 Ananda Dhakal September 23, 2026
2 Safe SVG <= 2.5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2026-94077 6.4 spectreDeveloper September 23, 2026
3 Safe SVG <= 2.2.5 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG CVE-2024-8378 5.4 Alexander Concha October 17, 2024
4 SVG Sanitizer library <= 0.15.4 - Cross-Site Scripting Bypass CVE-2023-28426 7.2 Cyxow March 23, 2023
5 Safe SVG <= 1.9.9 - Content-Type Bypass CVE-2022-1091 7.7 David Hamann March 25, 2022
6 Safe SVG <= 1.9.5 - Cross-Site Scripting 5.4 0xd0ff9 November 8, 2019
7 Safe SVG <= 1.9.4 - Denial of Service CVE-2019-18854 6.5 Nguyen Thanh Nguyen November 5, 2019

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