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CVE-2024-13697: Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.7.4 - Unauthenticated Limited Server-Side Request Forgery in nice_links

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.4 via the 'nice_links'. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. Successful exploitation requires the "Enable link previews" to be enabled (default).

Affected products

• wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages: before 2.7.5 — fixed in 2.7.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages 2.7.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3243180/bp-better-messages
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b67710d7-976b-4a65-bad3-091a97aceb00?source=cve

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