Medium severity · published Mar 1, 2025
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
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 21% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BM
Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages · wordplus
through 2.7.4 · source: vendor
BM
Better Messages · Wordplus
before 2.7.5 · source: NVD
Affected product
BM
Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages
wordplus
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13697
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13697
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3243180/bp-better-messages
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b67710d7-976b-4a65-bad3-091a97aceb00?source=cve
More from Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages
7.5
CVE-2024-13611
Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.6.9 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure Through Unprotected Directory
6.3
CVE-2022-4974
Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks
6.1
CVE-2025-14154
Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.10.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
5.4
CVE-2024-13612
Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.6.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode