PT-2024-16038 · WordPress · Twitter Follow Button

Francesco Carlucci · Published 2024-11-22 · Updated 2025-07-15 · CVE-2024-10116

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Twitter Follow Button plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.2

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the username parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages, which will execute when a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For Twitter Follow Button plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.2, consider disabling the plugin until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. Restrict access to the username parameter to minimize the risk of arbitrary web script injection. Avoid using the username parameter in affected pages until the issue is resolved. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-10116

Affected Products

Twitter Follow Button

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10116 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3194573%40twitter-follow%2Ftrunk&old=1852833%40twitter-follow%2Ftrunk · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10116 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fac89439-bd0a-4772-858d-d11dd0de54b6?source=cve · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-follow/#developers · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/102409 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/129096 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/twitter-follow/trunk/twitter-follow.php#L34 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1860199500121244081 · Twitter Post