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CVE-2024-1219: easy social feed vulnerability
CVE-2024-1219: medium vulnerability affecting easy social feed. Check CVSS, KEV status, business impact and recommended administrator actions.
- CVSS
- 5.3 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 22.61%
- Known exploited
- not in KEV
- Product
- easy social feed
What is known
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
Business impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2024-1219, a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) affecting easy social feed, may affect the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the vulnerable environment. The exact impact depends on the installed version, exposed interfaces and deployment configuration.
Recommended administrator action
Confirm whether easy social feed is present and compare installed versions with the vendor advisory and NVD record. Apply the vendor patch or documented mitigation; until remediation is complete, reduce exposure of affected interfaces, review relevant logs and monitor for indicators of exploitation. DataHouse can support version verification, managed patching, network exposure reduction, log review and backup validation for dedicated, cloud and colocated environments.