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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2021-24958

Severity Medium
Score 5.4/10

Summary

The Meks Easy Photo Feed Widget WordPress plugin before 1.2.4 does not have capability and CSRF checks in the meks_save_business_selected_account AJAX action, available to any authenticated user, and does not escape some of the settings. As a result, any authenticated user, such as subscriber could update the plugin's settings and put Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them

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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
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CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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Advisory Timeline

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