Feed Them Social – for Twitter feed, Youtube and more <= 2.9.9 - Subscriber+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-2940
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published November 14, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Marco Wotschka
Description

The Feed Them Social plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘access_token’ parameter in the function fts_instagram_token_ajax in versions up to, and including, 2.9.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, subscriber and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts stored in the plugin options.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug feed-them-social (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.9.9
Patched Version
  • 3.0.1
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