What is CVE-2024-0973?

CVE-2024-0973 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Patelmilap Widget For Social Page Feeds, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-03-18.

How severe is CVE-2024-0973?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-0973 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Patelmilap Widget For Social Page Feeds

CVE-2024-0973

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)

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (32.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Patelmilap Widget_for_social_page_feeds
Unknown Widget For Social Page Feeds — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-0973?: CVE-2024-0973 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Patelmilap Widget For Social Page Feeds, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-03-18.
How severe is CVE-2024-0973?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-0973 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.