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

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24918
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published October 29, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Marc-Alexandre Montpas
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

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug custom-facebook-feed (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.1
Patched Version
  • 4.0.1
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