Vulnerability · Published Apr 11, 2022 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2022-0840Easy Social Icons < 3.2.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting in add icon

Medium 4.8

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Easy Social Icons from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)4.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 51.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 3.2.1 does not properly escape the image_file field when adding a new social icon, allowing high privileged users to inject arbitrary javascript even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Unknown Easy Social Icons 3.2.1 – before 3.2.1

Weakness: CWE-79

References