Vulnerabilities and security researches forfriends friends

Jun 07, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-1978
Home page URL: Security reports for Friends
Application: Friends
Date: Feb 29, 2024
Research 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

Dec 07, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-12028
Home page URL: Security reports for Friends
Application: Friends
Date: Dec 06, 2024
Research Description: The Friends plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on several REST API endpoints in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send arbitrary friend requests on behalf of another website, accept the friend request for the targeted website, and then communicate with the site as an accepted friend.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

Jul 12, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-7504
Home page URL: Security reports for Friends
Application: Friends
Date: Jul 12, 2025
Research Description: The Friends plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in version 3.5.1 via deserialization of untrusted input of the query_vars parameter This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject a PHP Object. No known POP chain is present in the vulnerable software, which means this vulnerability has no impact unless another plugin or theme containing a POP chain is installed on the site. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it may allow the attacker to perform actions like delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code depending on the POP chain present. This requires access to the sites SALT_NONCE and and SALT_KEY to exploit.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable