CVE-2024-1978

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - security@wordfence.com

Published

2024-02-29

Last modified

2026-04-08

Weaknesses

CWE-918

Affected products

• Friends (Akirk)
• Friends (Alex.kirk)

References

• https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/290
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3036987%40friends&new=3036987%40friend…
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72e1fbce-86ae-4518-a613-7c322193acf4?source=cve