Social Slider Widget <= 1.8.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.8.5
- Affected Plugin
- Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets
- Affected Version
< 1.8.5- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2021-24196
At a glance
CVE-2021-24196 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Social Slider Feed WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.8.5. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.8.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2021, reported by purine chu.
Vulnerability Overview
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
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Social Slider Feed < 1.8.5 carries this weakness at token_error, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Social Slider Feed the fix is 1.8.5: builds < 1.8.5 are affected, anything from 1.8.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.8.5, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Social Slider Feed: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Social Slider Feed 1.8.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Same weakness class
Other vulnerabilities in Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets
- 8.8Social Slider Feed <= 2.0.4 Missing Authorization
- 5.5Social Slider Feed <= 2.0.6 Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- 5.5Social Slider Feed <= 2.0.5 Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- 4.4CVE-2025-0717: Social Slider Feed <= 2.2.8 Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2025-0717 - 4.4CVE-2024-10149: Social Slider Feed <= 2.2.8 Stored XSS
CVE-2024-10149 - 4.3CVE-2024-43215: Social Slider Feed <= 2.2.2 Missing Authorization
CVE-2024-43215
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