Smash Balloon Social Post Feed <= 2.19.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24508
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published August 16, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher dc11
Description

The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin before 2.19.2 does not sanitise or escape the feedID POST parameter in its feed_locator AJAX action (available to both authenticated and unauthenticated users) before outputting a truncated version of it in the admin dashboard, leading to an unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue which will be executed in the context of a logged in administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug custom-facebook-feed (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.19.2
Patched Version
  • 2.19.2
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