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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2024-1775 EUVD-2024-17500GHSA-5jhf-7c6v-c23x

Nextend Social Login and Register <= 3.1.12 - Reflected Self-Based Cross-Site Scripting via error_description

Published Mar 2, 2024 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

The Nextend Social Login and Register plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a self-based Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘error_description’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers, with access to a subscriber-level account, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. NOTE: This vulnerability can be successfully exploited on a vulnerable WordPress instance against an OAuth pre-authenticated higher-level user (e.g., administrator) by leveraging a cross-site request forgery in conjunction with a certain social engineering technique to achieve a critical impact scenario (cross-site scripting to administrator-level account creation). However, successful exploitation requires "Debug mode" to be enabled in the plugin's "Global Settings".

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nextendweb Nextend Social Login and Register ≤ 3.1.12 —

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