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WordPress Plugin: easy-twitter-feeds: CVE-2021-24413: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Sep 20, 2021

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Easy Twitter Feed WordPress plugin before 1.2 does not sanitise or validate the parameters from its shortcode, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to set Cross-Site Scripting payload in them which will be triggered in the page/s with the embed malicious shortcode.

Solution

easy-twitter-feeds-plugin-cve-2021-24413

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24413
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ad9272e3-fa81-440e-8d77-207145123ad2?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-11325
CVE-2021-24413
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-24413
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2021-11325

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