CVE-2024-4354: tablepress Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-4354 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in tablepress. EPSS estimates a 0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29.2% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 2.3.2.

Timeline

1. 07-06-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 08-04-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.3 via the get_files_to_import() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. Due to the complex nature of protecting against DNS rebind attacks in WordPress software, we settled on the developer simply restricting the usage of the URL import functionality to just administrators. While this is not optimal, we feel this poses a minimal risk to most site owners and ideally WordPress core would correct this issue in wp_safe_remote_get() and other functions.

• CWE-918Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.