Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in EmbedSocial Plugin

CVE-2024-3984
6.4MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor
Embedsocial
Status
Embedsocial – Social Media Feeds, Reviews And Galleries
Vendor
CVE Published:
19 June 2024

Summary

The EmbedSocial – Social Media Feeds, Reviews and Galleries plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'embedsocial_reviews' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.29 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Version(s)

EmbedSocial – Social Media Feeds, Reviews and Galleries <= 1.1.29

CVSS V3.1

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

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Disclosed

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Krzysztof Zając
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