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RSS Feed Widget <= 2.8.0 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2020-24314Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <2.8.1Update to 2.8.1 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium6.1
CVSS
6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

RSS Feed Widget rss-feed-widget

  1. Affected< 2.8.1
  2. Patched in2.8.1

Update to 2.8.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 2.8.1. Version 2.8.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under RSS Feed Widget.
  • 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

  1. Update to version 2.8.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch RSS Feed Widget to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to zerodetail (ZeroAptitude.com), ratherbland (ZeroAptitude.com).

Fahad Mahmood RSS Feed Widget Plugin v2.8.0 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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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All 6
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤3.0.2Update to 3.0.3
CVE-2025-69349
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
≤3.0.0Update to 3.0.1
CVE-2024-9835
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.9.9Update to 3.0.0
CVE-2024-9836
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via rfw-youtube-videos Shortcode
≤2.9.9Update to 3.0.0
CVE-2024-10057
Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.9.7Update to 2.9.8
CVE-2024-32690

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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