CVE-2024-12526

Summary

CVE-2024-12526: The Arena.IM plugin for WordPress, used for live blogging real-time events, contains a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. This issue affects all versions up to 0.3.0 due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'albfre_user_action' AJAX action. Attackers can exploit this flaw to update the plugin's settings through a forged request, requiring a site administrator to perform a triggering action, such as clicking a malicious link. This vulnerability puts WordPress sites utilizing the Arena.IM plugin at risk of unauthorized configuration changes.

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