CVE-2024-2118: The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perfor...

Summary

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its 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 examp...

What to do

Update inisev social_media_share_buttons_\&_social_sharing_icons to version 2.8.9 or later.

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
inisev	social_media_share_buttons_\&_social_sharing_icons	< 2.8.9 `cpe:2.3:a:inisev:social_media_share_buttons_\&_social_sharing_icons::::::wordpress::*`

Original advisory text

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perfor...

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its 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)

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/ Exploit Third Party Advisory