WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2023-6805 Modified

RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator: Server-side request forgery

RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator is affected by server-side request forgery. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. The vulnerable server can be induced to make attacker-selected network requests.

CVE / CNA score 6.4 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator
Plugin slug
rss-aggregator-by-feedzy
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Apr 17, 2024
Weakness
CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

This CVE was published Apr 17, 2024 and is one of 7 known issues for this plugin.

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Technical description

The RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Blind Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.7 via the fetch_feed functionality. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to modify information from internal services. NOTE: This vulnerability, exploitable by contributor-level users, was was fixed in version 4.4.7. The same vulnerability was fixed for author-level users in version 4.4.8.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Primary and upstream sources