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CVE-2024-12526: Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events <= 0.4.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

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, 0.4.1. 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.

Affected products

• arenaim Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events: through 0.3.0

References

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

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