01 Record
CVE-2019-20203
The Authorized Addresses feature in the Postie plugin 1.9.40 for WordPress allows remote attackers to publish posts by spoofing the From information of an email message.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The Authorized Addresses feature in the Postie plugin 1.9.40 for WordPress allows remote attackers to publish posts by spoofing the From information of an email message.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.09% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-01-01 21:59Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 02:39Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-01-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-290Authentication Bypass by SpoofingBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- dcf7eeaa9f75d4dc6d461e7e928fd0faa8d4fcfb7ead832859eb0c9dd3d5fd4e
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/V1n1v131r4/Exploiting-Postie-WordPress-Plugin-/blob/master/README.md
- postieplugin.comhttps://postieplugin.com/
- wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/#developers
- wpvulndb.comhttps://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/10002