CVE-2024-0973: Widget for Social Page Feeds < 6.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 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 Widget for Social Page Feeds WordPress plugin before 6.4 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

Widget for Social Page Feeds: before 6.4 — fixed in 6.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Widget for Social Page Feeds 6.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/798de421-4814-46a9-a055-ebb95a7218ed/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/798de421-4814-46a9-a055-ebb95a7218ed/

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