Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Html Social Share Buttons Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-9849

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Html Social Share Buttons
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 September 2025

What is CVE-2025-9849?

The Html Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress exposes a vulnerability through the 'zm_sh_btn' shortcode, allowing authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher to exploit weaknesses in input sanitization and output escaping. This flaw enables the injection of arbitrary web scripts, which can execute whenever a user accesses a compromised page, increasing the risk of data theft and malicious attacks.

Affected Version(s)

Html Social share buttons 0 <= 2.1.16

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html-social-sh...
https://github.com/alimuzzaman/html-social-share-buttons/...

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

Peter Thaleikis
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