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CVE-2024-13924: Starter Templates by FancyWP <= 2.0.0 - Unauthenticated Blind Server-Side Request Forgery

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The Starter Templates by FancyWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Blind Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0 via the 'http_request_host_is_external' filter. 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.

Affected products

• fancywp Starter Templates by FancyWP: through 2.0.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/starter-templates/trunk/classess/class-export.php#L3
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9355b100-08a9-4640-a91b-e56ba1ab9b07?source=cve

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