Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Easy Social Feed Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-1278

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery And Post Feed For WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
21 March 2024

What is CVE-2024-1278?

The Easy Social Feed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the 'efb_likebox' shortcode. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 6.5.4, allowing authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages. This script will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page, posing significant security risks to users visiting these sites.

Affected Version(s)

Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress 0 <= 6.5.4

References

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

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

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