RSS Feed Widget <= 2.8.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

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

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2020-24314
CVSS	Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published	August 10, 2020
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	zerodetail (ZeroAptitude.com), ratherbland (ZeroAptitude.com)

Description

Fahad Mahmood RSS Feed Widget Plugin v2.8.0 and lower does not sanitize the value of the "t" GET parameter before echoing it back out inside an input tag. This results in a reflected XSS vulnerability that attackers can exploit with a specially crafted URL.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	rss-feed-widget (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 2.8.1
Patched Version	2.8.1

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