CVE-2024-1978

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Friends plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.8.5

Description The issue allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level access and above to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application. This can be used to query and modify information from internal services via the discover available feeds function.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 2.8.5, consider disabling the discover available feeds function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to internal services to minimize the risk of exploitation.