CVE-2024-12526

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.

CVSS v3 4.3 MEDIUM

4.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

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

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:arena.im:arena.im:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

27 Feb 2025, 02:45

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:arena.im:arena.im::::::wordpress::*
First Time		Arena.im arena.im Arena.im
References	~~() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/arena-liveblog-and-chat-tool/trunk/albfre.php#L125 -~~	() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/arena-liveblog-and-chat-tool/trunk/albfre.php#L125 - Product
References	~~() https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f9173644-f0b2-4de3-8e58-fd556d8e38cd?source=cve -~~	() https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f9173644-f0b2-4de3-8e58-fd556d8e38cd?source=cve - Third Party Advisory

12 Dec 2024, 05:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2024-12-12 05:15

Updated : 2025-02-27 02:45

NVD link : CVE-2024-12526

Mitre link : CVE-2024-12526

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-12526

JSON object : View

Products Affected

arena.im

arena.im

CWE

CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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