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CVE-2024-0951: Advanced Social Feeds Widget & Shortcode <= 1.7 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-03-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Advanced Social Feeds Widget & Shortcode WordPress plugin through 1.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

• Advanced Social Feeds Widget & Shortcode: through 1.7

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/88b2e479-eb15-4213-9df8-3d353074974e/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/88b2e479-eb15-4213-9df8-3d353074974e/

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