Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress Plugin
CVE-2024-2118

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Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 April 2024

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👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected Version(s)

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons 0 < 2.8.9

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-2024-2118 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-...
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Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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