CVE-2024-10116: The Twitter Follow Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'username' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 0.2 due to insufficient input sanitizatio

medium Affects twitter-follow (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The Twitter Follow Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'username' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 0.2 due to insufficient input sanitizatio

Package
twitter-follow (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<=0.2
Fixed in
no fix recorded
Severity
medium  CVSS 6.4
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (33.7th percentile)
Published
2024-11-23
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
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