Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Social Share Buttons WordPress Plugin
CVE-2024-12807

4.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
WordPress
Status
Social Share Buttons For WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
28 January 2025

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

The Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress, up to version 2.7, has a security weakness due to improper sanitization and escaping of certain settings. This flaw can enable users with elevated privileges, such as administrators, to execute Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. This occurs even in environments where the unfiltered_html capability is restricted, such as in multisite configurations, posing a serious risk to site integrity and user data.

Affected Version(s)

Social Share Buttons for WordPress 0 <= 2.7

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2024-12807 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fcce0839-bb1d-4aa3-b236-...
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

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

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Bob Matyas
WPScan
.