Vulnerability · Published Sep 13, 2021 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2021-24508Smash Balloon Social Post Feed < 2.19.2 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Smash Balloon Social Post Feed from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 28.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin before 2.19.2 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 Cross-Site Scripting issue which will be executed in the context of a logged in administrator.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Smash Balloon Social Post Feed	2.19.2 – before 2.19.2

Weakness: CWE-79

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2b543740-d4b0-49b5-a021-454a3a72162f x_refsource_MISC