CVE-2024-13697 (GCVE-0-2024-13697)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-01 08:23 – Updated: 2025-03-03 20:56
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Summary
The Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.4 via the 'nice_links'. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. Successful exploitation requires the "Enable link previews" to be enabled (default).
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss Affected: * , ≤ 2.7.4 (semver)
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Credits
Tim Coen
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