Smash Balloon Social Post Feed <= 4.0 - Arbitrary Plugin Settings Update to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

5.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24918
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published October 29, 2021
Last Updated January 23, 2023
Researcher Marc-Alexandre Montpas

Description

The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin before 4.0.1 did not have any privilege or nonce validation before saving the plugin's setting. As a result, any logged-in user on a vulnerable site could update the settings and store rogue JavaScript on each of its posts and pages.

Wordfence blocked 1,331 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug custom-facebook-feed (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.0.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 4.0.1
Patched Version
  • 4.0.1

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