Medium severity · published Apr 17, 2024
CVE-2024-2118
Social Media Share Buttons < 2.8.9 - Admin+ Stored XSS via settings
5.9
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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)
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 35% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SM
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons ·
before 2.8.9 · source: vendor, NVD
Affected product
SM
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2118
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-2118
Exploit
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/
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