CVE-2024-12526 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-12526

Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events <= 0.4.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

Vulnerability Description

The Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.4.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'albfre_user_action' AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Peter Thaleikis

References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: December 12th, 2024
Last Modified: April 8th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-352

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Initial Access
T1204.001 Malicious Link
Execution
T1098 Account Manipulation
Persistence
T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact