Description

The Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.3.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'albfre_user_action' AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-12526

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 4.3

Affected Products

Vendor: arenaim

Product: Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 19.29% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f9173644-f0b2-4de3-8e58-fd556d8e38cd?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/arena-liveblog-and-chat-tool/trunk/albfre.php#L125

Timeline