CVE-2021-24196 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2021-24196

Social Slider Widget < 1.8.5 - Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Vulnerability Description

The Social Slider Widget WordPress plugin before 1.8.5 allowed Authenticated Reflected XSS in the plugin settings page as the ‘token_error’ parameter can be controlled by users and it is directly echoed without being sanitized

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • purine chu

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Social Slider Widget
Vulnerable Versions:
1.8.5

Timeline

Official Publish: April 5th, 2021
Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)