Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Shareaholic Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-4889

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic
Vendor
CVE Published:
15 November 2023

Summary

The Shareaholic plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the 'shareaholic' shortcode. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages. These scripts can execute in the browsers of users who access the compromised pages, potentially leading to identity theft, session hijacking, or other malicious exploits.

Affected Version(s)

Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic * <= 9.7.8

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2995413/shar...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

István Márton
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