Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Social Rocket Plugin by WordPress
CVE-2024-9702

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 January 2025

What is CVE-2024-9702?

The Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the 'socialrocket-floating' shortcode. This vulnerability arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping for user-supplied attributes. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher can exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts can then execute whenever a user visits a page containing the compromised shortcode, potentially leading to unauthorized actions or data exposure.

Affected Version(s)

Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin * <= 1.3.4

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-rocket/

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Peter Thaleikis
.