The Animation Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 2.7.2 does not validate a user-supplied value before using it to build the host of a server-side HTTP request, allowing unauthenticated users to make the site issue requests to internal hosts and read the responses back.
CVE-2026-17565
Score 7.2 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-19. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 7.2; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.2
- EG Score
- 7.2(high)
- EG Risk
- 47(Track)EG Risk 47/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity72% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 10%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 19, 2026
Last Modified
August 19, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Aug 19, 2026Animation Addons for Elementor < 2.7.2 – Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery | CVE 2026-17565 | Plugin Vulnerabilities
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e88e0b71-145c-4edd-9b62-783215b64c67/Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-17565(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 14× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-21 04:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-21 04:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 17:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 06:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-20 06:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 19:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 18:23 UTCEG score recompute▲ 7.20
- 2026-08-19 18:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 18:22 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.2 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 06:21 UTCNVD update
- 2026-08-19 06:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 06:17 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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