Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-37260

CVE-2024-37260:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the Theme-Ruby Foxiz WordPress theme, affecting all versions up to and including 2.3.5. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed on June 27, 2024, and was assigned CVE-2024-37260. This security flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application (WPScan, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery) and has received varying CVSS v3.1 scores: a Critical score of 9.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N) from NVD and a High score of 7.2 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) from Patchstack. The vulnerability requires no authentication or user interaction to exploit, making it particularly dangerous (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability can be exploited to query and modify information from internal services. When successfully exploited, attackers can cause the website to execute requests to arbitrary domains, potentially exposing sensitive information from other services running on the system (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.3.6 of the Foxiz theme. Users are advised to update to version 2.3.6 or later immediately. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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