Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in WP Font Awesome Share Icons Plugin
CVE-2024-3198

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
WP Font Awesome Share Icons
Vendor
CVE Published:
22 May 2024

What is CVE-2024-3198?

The WP Font Awesome Share Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wpfai_social' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Version(s)

WP Font Awesome Share Icons * <= 1.1.1

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-font-awesome-share-icons/

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

Lucio Sá
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CVE-2024-3198 : Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in WP Font Awesome Share Icons Plugin