Vulnerability · Published May 12, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2026-7659Advanced Social Media Icons <= 1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social' Shortcode
Medium 6.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Advanced Social Media Icons from riotweb. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Advanced Social Media Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the `social` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| riotweb | Advanced Social Media Icons | 0 – through 1.2 |
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/999c2207-6d45-4b46-8fe1-03682a949c5c?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-social-media-icons/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-social-media-icons/tags/1.2/functions.php#L40
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-social-media-icons/trunk/functions.php#L40