Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Social Feed Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-5661

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Social Feed | All Social Media In One Place
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 November 2023

What is CVE-2023-5661?

The Social Feed plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the 'socialfeed' shortcode. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 1.5.4.6, allowing authenticated attackers with at least author-level permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts. Such scripts can execute in the browser of any user accessing an affected page, potentially leading to unauthorized actions or data theft.

Affected Version(s)

Social Feed | All social media in one place * <= 1.5.4.6

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/add-facebook/t...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Lana Codes
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