CVE-2024-13697

EUVD-2025-5892

01.03.2025, 09:15

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).

SSRF

Provider	Type	Base Score	Atk. Vector	Atk. Complexity	Priv. Required	Vector
NIST	Primary	4.8 MEDIUM	NETWORK	HIGH	NONE	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Wordfence	CNA	4.8 MEDIUM				CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base Score

CVSS 3.x

EPSS Score

Percentile: 50%

Affected Products (NVD)

Vendor	Product	Version
wordplus	better_messages	𝑥 < 2.7.5

𝑥

= Vulnerable software versions

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3243180/bp-better-messages

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b67710d7-976b-4a65-bad3-091a97aceb00?source=cve