Friends <= 2.8.5 - Authenticated (Admin+) Blind Server-Side Request Forgery

5.5
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-1978
CVSS 5.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published February 28, 2024
Last Updated February 29, 2024
Researcher Francisco Gutierrez - Appgate Threat Advisory Services Team

Description

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.

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Vulnerability Details for Friends

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug friends (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.8.6, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.5
Patched Version
  • 2.8.6

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