CVE-2024-1978

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    CVE-2024-1978

    Published: 29 Feb 2024Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

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

    Details: 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.

    References: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3036987%40friends&new=3036987%40friends&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72e1fbce-86ae-4518-a613-7c322193acf4?source=cve, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/1xxx/CVE-2024-1978.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1978, https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/290

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -d18e821ba35c734923d533bd426b585192e9a331

    Affected versions

    2.8.5
    2.8.4
    2.8.3
    2.8.2
    2.8.1
    2.8.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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