Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability in Friends Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-1978

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Friends
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 February 2024

Summary

The Friends plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.5 via the discover_available_feeds function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Affected Version(s)

Friends * <= 2.8.5

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/290
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Francisco Gutierrez
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