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CVE-2024-1978

17
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:alex.kirk:friends:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 3,562 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / akirk/friends/pull/290
Patch
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset
Patch
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72e1fbce-86ae-4518-a613-7c322193acf4
Third Party Advisory