- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.46%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 60% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
References
3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72e1fbce-86ae-4518-a613-7c322193acf4?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/290 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3036987%40friends&new=3036987%40friends&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-17695 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-1978)Record last updated .