CVE-2020-36739 Feed Them Social – Page, Post, Video, and Photo Galleries <= 2.8.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass

What is CVE-2020-36739?

CVE-2020-36739 is a medium-severity vulnerability in slickremix Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries, published on 1 Jul 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Feed Them Social – Page, Post, Video, and Photo Galleries plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.8.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the my_fts_fb_load_more() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to load feeds via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36739?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Slickremix Feed Them Social.

How do I fix CVE-2020-36739?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-36739 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-36739 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36739 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in slickremix Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries

• CVE-2022-2437 Feed Them Social – for Twitter feed, Youtube and more <= 2.9.8.5 - Unauthenticated PHAR Deserialization Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-9351 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-2383 Feed Them Social < 3.0.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Medium 6.1
• CVE-2022-2532 Feed Them Social < 3.0.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Medium 6.1
• CVE-2015-9350 Cross-site scripting in n/a Medium 6.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-qg76-r2j2-x5qp.