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CVE-2021-29504: Improper Certificate Validation in WP-CLI framework

critical Affects wp-cli/wp-cli. Feed 2026.10.29.4, updated 2026-10-29; published ; advisory modified .

Improper Certificate Validation in WP-CLI framework

Package
wp-cli/wp-cli Composer
Affected versions
>=0.12.0 and <2.5.0 or >=0.12.0 and <1.0.0 or >=1.0.0 and <2.0.0 or >=2.0.0 and <2.5.0
Fixed in
2.5.0
Severity
critical  CVSS 9.1
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (70.6th percentile)
Published
2021-05-19
Source
osv.dev

References

CWE-295
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