Unfiltered HTML Setting Vulnerability in Advanced Social Feeds Widget & Shortcode Plugin
CVE-2024-0951

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Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Advanced Social Feeds Widget & Shortcode
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 March 2024

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👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

The Advanced Social Feeds Widget & Shortcode WordPress plugin through 1.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected Version(s)

Advanced Social Feeds Widget & Shortcode 0 <= 1.7

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2024-0951 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/88b2e479-eb15-4213-9df8-...
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Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dmtrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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