CVE-2024-0973: widget for social page feeds vulnerability

The Widget for Social Page Feeds WordPress plugin before 6.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
CVE-2024-0973CVSS 6.1CMS

CVE-2024-0973: widget for social page feeds vulnerability

The Widget for Social Page Feeds WordPress plugin before 6.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

CVSS
6.1 MEDIUM
EPSS
32.26%
Known exploited
not in KEV
Product
widget for social page feeds

What is known

The Widget for Social Page Feeds WordPress plugin before 6.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

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