Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Meks Smart Social Widget for WordPress
CVE-2024-0664

4.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Meks Smart Social Widget
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 January 2024

Summary

The Meks Smart Social Widget plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with administrator capabilities to inject malicious web scripts into pages, which execute when users access those pages. It primarily affects multi-site installations and those where unfiltered HTML has been disabled, increasing the risk of unauthorized script execution.

Affected Version(s)

Meks Smart Social Widget * <= 1.6.3

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.8
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Arpeet Rathi
.