WordPress plugin
Feed Them Social <= 1.6.9 — Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
CVE-2015-9351Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.6.9Update to 1.7.0 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries feed-them-social
- Affected≤ 1.6.9
- Patched in1.7.0
Update to 1.7.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.6.9. Version 1.7.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 1.7.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to James Hooker.
The feed-them-social plugin before 1.7.0 for WordPress has possible shortcode execution in the Facebook Feeds load more button.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries
All 13| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low3.5 | Cross-Site Request Forgery via review_nag_check ≤4.2.0Update to 4.2.1 | CVE-2024-24710 | |
| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤4.0.7Update to 4.0.8 | — | |
| Medium5.4 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤3.0.2Update to 4.0.0 | CVE-2023-25056 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.9.9Update to 3.0.1 | CVE-2022-2940 | |
| High8.8 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings update ≤2.9.9Update to 3.0.1 | CVE-2022-2942 |
- Low3.5Cross-Site Request Forgery via review_nag_check
≤4.2.0Update to 4.2.1
- Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤4.0.7Update to 4.0.8
- Medium5.4Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤3.0.2Update to 4.0.0
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.9.9Update to 3.0.1
- High8.8Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings update
≤2.9.9Update to 3.0.1
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
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Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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