Special Feed Items <= 1.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

6.1
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-8051
CVSS 6.1 (Medium)
Publicly Published August 27, 2024
Last Updated August 28, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf

Description

The Special Feed Items plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Vulnerability Details for Special Feed Items

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug special-feed-items (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.1

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