CVE-2024-6752: social auto poster vulnerability

The Social Auto Poster plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wp_name’ parameter in the 'wpw_auto_poster_map_wordpress_post_type' AJAX function in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
CVE-2024-6752CVSS 6.4CMS

CVE-2024-6752: social auto poster vulnerability

The Social Auto Poster plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wp_name’ parameter in the 'wpw_auto_poster_map_wordpress_post_type' AJAX function in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS
6.4 MEDIUM
EPSS
17.24%
Known exploited
not in KEV
Product
social auto poster

What is known

The Social Auto Poster plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wp_name’ parameter in the 'wpw_auto_poster_map_wordpress_post_type' AJAX function in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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