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WordPress Smash Balloon Social Post Feed Plugin < 2.19.2 XSS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The WordPress plugin Smash Balloon Social Post Feed is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The plugin does not sanitise or escape the feedID POST parameter in its feed_locator AJAX action (available to both authenticated and unauthenticated users) before outputting a truncated version of it in the admin dashboard, leading to an unauthenticated stored XSS issue which will be executed in the context of a logged in administrator.
Affected Software
Affected Software
WordPress Smash Balloon Social Post Feed through version 2.19.1.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 2.19.2 or later.