CVE-2024-1978 affects all versions up to and including 2.8.5 of the Friends plugin for WordPress, allowing for Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) through the discover_available_feeds function. This vulnerability enables authenticated administrators to initiate web requests from the application to arbitrary internal or external locations. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), the attack requires high privileges and has low impacts on confidentiality and integrity, but no impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:alex.kirk:friends:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.