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JSON Content Importer <= 1.5.6 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Server-Side Request Forgery

CVE-2024-38723Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.5.6Update to 1.6.0 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.4
CVSS
6.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-918 SSRF
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer json-content-importer

  1. Affected≤ 1.5.6
  2. Patched in1.6.0

Update to 1.6.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.5.6. Version 1.6.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.6.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ananda Dhakal.

The Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application which can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer

All 4
More vulnerabilities in Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
<2.0.10Update to 2.0.10
CVE-2025-15363
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.5.3Update to 1.5.4
CVE-2023-6268
Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Cross Site Scripting
≤1.3.15Update to 1.3.16
CVE-2023-25485

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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