# CVE-2024-30180: WordPress Easy Social Feed plugin <= 6.5.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

> Stored XSS in Easy Social Feed allows attackers to inject malicious scripts, potentially compromising user sessions and site integrity.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-55f2-cvqm-cw4q

## What is CVE-2024-30180?

CVE-2024-30180 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Easy Social Feed, published on 27 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Easy Social Feed allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Easy Social Feed: from n/a through 6.5.3.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-30180?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Easysocialfeed Easy Social Feed.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-30180?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-30180 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-30180 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-30180 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Easy Social Feed

- [CVE-2024-1278](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1278/): Cross-site scripting in Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2021-25120](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25120/): Easy Social Feed < 6.2.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-1213](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1213/): Easy Social Feed <= 6.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2022-4474](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4474/): Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box < 6.4.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2024-1219](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1219/): Easy Social Feed < 6.5.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-30180 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-30180 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Easy Social Feed, published on 27 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-30180 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Easy Social Feed. 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-2024-30180/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-30180/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-30180
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-30180
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30180

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-30180/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.