vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: rss-feed-widget: CVE-2020-24314: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 10, 2020
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

rss-feed-widget-plugin-cve-2020-24314
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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