Easy Twitter Feed < 1.2 - Cross-Site Scripting

6.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24413
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published September 20, 2021
Last Updated January 28, 2023
Researcher Michal Lipinski

Description

The Easy Twitter Feed WordPress plugin before 1.2 does not sanitise or validate the parameters from its shortcode, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to set Cross-Site Scripting payload in them which will be triggered in the page/s with the embed malicious shortcode.

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Vulnerability Details for Easy Twitter Feed – Twitter feeds plugin for WP

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug easy-twitter-feeds (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 1.2
Patched Version
  • 1.2

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