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6.4
Ed's Social Share plugin for WordPress allows hackers to inject malicious code
CVE-2026-2501
Summary
The Ed's Social Share plugin for WordPress, used in sites with contributor-level access and above, is vulnerable to a security flaw that allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages. This means hackers can execute their own code on your site. Update the plugin to a version higher than 2.0 to fix this issue.
Original title
The Ed's Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's `social_share` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This is due to insuffici...
Original description
The Ed's Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's `social_share` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This is 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.
nvd CVSS3.1
6.4
Vulnerability type
CWE-79
Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Published: 21 Mar 2026 · Updated: 21 Mar 2026 · First seen: 21 Mar 2026