Vulnerability · Published May 2, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2024-1959Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare <= 4.4.6.1 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Medium 6.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare from warfareplugins. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 37% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'socialWarfare' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| warfareplugins | Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare | 0 – through 4.4.6.1 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1016f16c-0ab2-4cac-a7a5-8d93a37e7894?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/tags/4.4.5.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Shortcode.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3064109%40social-warfare&new=3064109%40social-warfare&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file1