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CVE-2020-24314

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Fahad Mahmood RSS Feed Widget Plugin v2.7.9 and lower does not sanitize the value of the "t" GET parameter before echoing it back out inside an input tag. This results in a reflected XSS vulnerability that attackers can exploit with a specially crafted URL.

Affected products

• Rss Feed Widget Project Rss Feed Widget: through 2.7.9

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-feed-widget/advanced/
• https://zeroaptitude.com/zerodetail/wordpress-plugin-bug-hunting-part-1/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-feed-widget/advanced/
• https://zeroaptitude.com/zerodetail/wordpress-plugin-bug-hunting-part-1/

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