Unfiltered HTML Setting Vulnerability in WPZOOM Social Icons Widget & Block Could Lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
CVE-2024-2189

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Social Icons Widget & Block By WPzoom
Vendor
CVE Published:
21 May 2024

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

The Social Icons Widget & Block by WPZOOM WordPress plugin before 4.2.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its Widget 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 Icons Widget & Block by WPZOOM 0 < 4.2.18

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-2024-2189 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b8661fbe-78b9-4d29-90bf-...
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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