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

> Unauthenticated attackers can bypass CSRF protections to load feeds by tricking administrators into clicking a link.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Jul 2023
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qg76-r2j2-x5qp

## 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 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36739?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-9351/): Code injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-2383](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2383/): Feed Them Social < 3.0.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2022-2532](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2532/): Feed Them Social < 3.0.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2015-9350](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-9350/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-36739 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: slickremix Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36739/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36739/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36739
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36739
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-36739

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36739/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.