Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Social Warfare Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-1959

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 May 2024

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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Affected Version(s)

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare * <= 4.4.6.1

References

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

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Krzysztof Zając
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