Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Reaction Buttons Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-13848

4.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 February 2025

Summary

The Reaction Buttons plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through its admin settings due to inadequate input validation and output encoding. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with admin-level access to inject malicious scripts, which execute whenever a user visits a compromised page. Importantly, this issue is present in multi-site configurations and in setups where the unfiltered_html capability has been disabled.

Affected Version(s)

Reaction Buttons * <= 2.1.6

References

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

Pham Van Tam
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