CVE-2024-1978: Alex.kirk Friends

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Alex.kirk Friends: before 2.8.6 (fixed in 2.8.6)

Published 2024-02-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.