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CVE-2020-36739: Feed Them Social – Page, Post, Video, and Photo Galleries <= 2.8.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2023-07-01 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-352
Description
The Feed Them Social – Page, Post, Video, and Photo Galleries plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.8.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the my_fts_fb_load_more() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to load feeds via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products
- slickremix Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries: before 2.8.7 — fixed in 2.8.7
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: slickremix Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries 2.8.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/25-wordpress-plugins-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/more-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-1/
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-2/
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-3/
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-4/
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-5/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2369818%40feed-them-social&new=2369818%40feed-them-social&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1fcbe3d1-449c-4135-bbf5-9ea9236e5328?source=cve
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/25-wordpress-plugins-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/more-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-1/
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