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The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Nov 30, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 29, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 30, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(40th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-24918

GHSA ID

GHSA-j9qp-w82r-g5cf

Source code

No known source code

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