Easy Social Feed < 6.5.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Easy Social Feed WordPress plugin before 6.5.6 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Easy Social Feed | before 6.5.6 | 6.5.6 | Patch available | CNA |
- Easy Social Feed VendorUnknown Affected before 6.5.6 Fixed in 6.5.6 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Easy Social Feed (Unknown) Fixed in 6.5.6
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-1219
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-22qj-8xm8-83m5
References
More sjaved Easy Social Feed vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-04089 Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box < 6.4.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2021-07398 Easy Social Feed < 6.2.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2024-19926 WordPress Easy Social Feed plugin <= 6.5.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2024-01190 Cross-site scripting in sjaved Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
- TI-2024-01128 Easy Social Feed <= 6.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2023-06288 Easy Social Feed <= 6.5.2 - Missing Authorization to Settings Modification CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
Sources
- CVE-2024-1219 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-1219 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-22qj-8xm8-83m5 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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