CVE-2021-24508

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.1
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2021-24508
  • Assigner
  • contact@wpscan.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-09-13T18:15:15
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-09-23T14:07:27
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-79 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:smashballoon:smash_balloon_social_post_feed:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1 OR 2.19.2
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • LOW
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 6.1
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 2.7
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2b543740-d4b0-49b5-a021-454a3a72162f Exploit Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24508
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-24508
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:53:44 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 10:24:58 2021-09-13T18:15Z 2021-09-13T18:15:15 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 10:24:58 2021-09-23T14:07:27 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 10:24:58 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated