CVE-2023-6805 Server-side request forgery in RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator

Medium 6.4 Published Updated

Authenticated contributors can exploit a blind SSRF vulnerability in the Feedzy plugin to make arbitrary web requests and modify internal service data.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2023-6805?

CVE-2023-6805 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in themeisle RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator, published on 17 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Blind Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.7 via the fetch_feed functionality. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to modify information from internal services. NOTE: This vulnerability, exploitable by contributor-level users, was was fixed in version 4.4.7. The same vulnerability was fixed for author-level users in version 4.4.8.

Weakness: CWE-918

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-6805?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Themeisle Rss Aggregator by Feedzy.

How do I fix CVE-2023-6805?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-6805 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.

Is CVE-2023-6805 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-6805 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-x245-wv5c-hr8q.

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