CVE-2024-1278

Description

The Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'efb_likebox' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Category

6.4
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.1 •
EPSS 0.10%
Third-Party Advisory wordfence.com
Affected: sjaved Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b76bddf3-96ad-4bb0-a37b-33b451da6713?source=cve third party advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-facebook-likebox/tags/6.5.4/facebook/frontend/easy-facebook-likebox.php product

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2024-1278?
CVE-2024-1278 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2024-1278?
To fix CVE-2024-1278, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2024-1278 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2024-1278 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
What software or system is affected by CVE-2024-1278?
CVE-2024-1278 affects sjaved Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box.
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