Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Social Warfare Plugin for WordPress

CVE-2024-1959

What is CVE-2024-1959?

The Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is susceptible to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability through the 'socialWarfare' shortcode due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject malicious scripts into pages, leading to potential execution whenever users access those compromised pages. It is vital for website administrators using the affected versions to implement immediate security measures to mitigate this threat.

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