cve-2021-38356
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-01 21:01
Modified
2025-03-31 17:46
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster <= 4.3.20 WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the $_REQUEST['page'] parameter which is echoed out on inc/nxs_class_snap.php by supplying the appropriate value 'nxssnap-post' to load the page in $_GET['page'] along with malicious JavaScript in $_POST['page'].
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/10/xss-vulnerability-in-nextscripts-social-networks-auto-poster-plugin-impacts-100000-sites/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/10/xss-vulnerability-in-nextscripts-social-networks-auto-poster-plugin-impacts-100000-sites/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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