CVE-2024-2118

Social Media Share Buttons < 2.8.9 - Admin+ Stored XSS via settings

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons

CVSS v3.1 CNA

5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 33rd percentile

Published

2024-04-17

Updated

2024-11-22

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/

Security advisories

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry