CVE-2021-24956 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler WordPress plugin before 6.8.7 does not sanitise and escape the b2sShowByDate parameter before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

Published: 2021-12-21

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: 1.7% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`6.8.7`	affected	< 6.8.7

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:adenion:blog2social:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-11868	The Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler WordPress plugin before 6.8.7 does not sanitise and escape the b2sShowByDate parameter before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01669.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5882ea89-f463-4f0b-a624-150bbaf967c2

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Adenion Blog2social

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2021-12-21T08:45:39.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:49:14.027Z

Reserved: 2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-24956

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-21T09:15:07.240

Modified: 2026-06-17T03:41:11.680

Link: CVE-2021-24956

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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