CVE-2024-1219 Easy Social Feed < 6.5.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

What is CVE-2024-1219?

CVE-2024-1219 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Easy Social Feed , published on 17 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1219?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Easysocialfeed Easy Social Feed.

How do I fix CVE-2024-1219?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1219 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2024-1219 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-1219 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Easy Social Feed

• CVE-2024-30180 WordPress Easy Social Feed plugin <= 6.5.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability Medium 6.5
• CVE-2024-1278 Cross-site scripting in Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress Medium 6.4
• CVE-2021-25120 Easy Social Feed < 6.2.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Medium 6.1
• CVE-2024-1213 Easy Social Feed <= 6.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Medium 5.4
• CVE-2022-4474 Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box < 6.4.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS Medium 5.4

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-22qj-8xm8-83m5.