CVE-2024-1978

Published: Feb 29, 2024Modified: Apr 8, 2026

5.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.3 / Impact: 2.7

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Alex.kirk: Friends

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Alex.kirk Friends	Before 2.8.6

Related CWEs

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.

References (6)

https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/290

Source: security@wordfence.com

Patch

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3036987%40friends&new=3036987%40friends&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Source: security@wordfence.com

Patch

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72e1fbce-86ae-4518-a613-7c322193acf4?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/290

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Patch

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3036987%40friends&new=3036987%40friends&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Patch

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72e1fbce-86ae-4518-a613-7c322193acf4?source=cve

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Third Party Advisory

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