TI-2024-11625 Aliases CVE-2024-12526 GHSA-rpm4-522r-wv97

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

LOW 19CWE-352Published 2024-12-12 · Updated 2026-04-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Tampering
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · Low · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00181 7th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
arenaim	Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events	up to 0.4.1	—	No fix listed	CNA

Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events Vendorarenaim Affected up to 0.4.1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:arena.im:arena.im::::::wordpress::*	up to 0.3.0	Vulnerable	arenaim

cpe:2.3:a:arena.im:arena.im:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions up to 0.3.0 Vulnerable ·arenaim

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-12526
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rpm4-522r-wv97

References

Advisory 1

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f9173644-f0b2-4de3-8e58-fd556d8e38cd?source=cve

Other 1

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/arena-liveblog-and-chat-tool/trunk/albfre.php#L125

TI-2024-11563 Cross-site scripting in arenaim Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
TI-2024-10549 Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events <= 0.3.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4

Sources

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