CVE-2021-24918

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

mediumImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
5.4
CVSS Score
5.4
CVSS Score
medium
Severity
4.0.1
Patched in
816d
Time to patch

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Low
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<4.0.1
PublishedOctober 29, 2021
Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024
Affected plugincustom-facebook-feed

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