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WordPress Plugin: feed-them-social: CVE-2022-2940: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Nov 14, 2022

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Feed Them Social plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘access_token’ parameter in the function fts_instagram_token_ajax in versions up to, and including, 2.9.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, subscriber and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts stored in the plugin options.

Solution

feed-them-social-plugin-cve-2022-2940

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2940
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1d07eefc-f406-4da4-addb-559caa6dc208?source=api-prod
CVE-2022-2940
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-2940

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