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CVE-2022-2940: wordpress feed-them-social Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 6.4v3.1MediumPublished
Published 14-11-2022Last modified 27-03-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-2940 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in wordpress feed-them-social. Fixed in 3.0.1.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.4/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (wordfence)
EPSS score
Not scored
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No EPSS score yet
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 14-11-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 27-03-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Feed Them Social plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘access_token’ parameter in the function fts_instagram_token_ajax in versions up to, and including, 2.9.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, subscriber and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts stored in the plugin options.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

No EPSS score has been published for this record yet.

Known exploited

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Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress1 product
  • feed-them-social≤ 2.9.9 (fixed in 3.0.1)

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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