PT-2024-28695 · WordPress · Embedsocial – Social Media Feeds

Krzysztof Zając · Published 2024-06-19 · Updated 2024-06-20 · CVE-2024-3984

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 EmbedSocial – Social Media Feeds, Reviews and Galleries plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.1.29

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'embedsocial reviews' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes, such as embedsocial reviews. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page, potentially through API endpoints like "/wp-admin/admin.php" with vulnerable parameters like shortcode attributes.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 1.1.29, update to a version higher than 1.1.29 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the embedsocial reviews shortcode until a patch is available. Restrict access to pages that use the embedsocial reviews shortcode to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-3984

Affected Products

Embedsocial – Social Media Feeds

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3984 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/83707 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6593b0de-db7a-4b7e-bd74-cc2b1e36ac60?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3105404%40embedalbum-pro&new=3105404%40embedalbum-pro&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedalbum-pro/trunk/embedalbum_pro.php#L194 · Note